more on the lines as forming an exit checkout use desk on youtube channel. the live discussion has just begun will be watching for your question to comment up next, take on the move, click the next generation of electric vehicles in solar palate. a big facility. the do big ultima bo companies play a role in the destruction of the rain forest. i have 10 rays all over brazil union . we process $30000.00 hides a day and 90 percent of that is for the forward market. the auto industry, for example. the letter will actually cost awesome comes from initial capital times in the m, as in yet the automobile industry doesn't care about the supply chain profit. all

that much. illegal leather stats may said on d w the . the holy grail of electron mobility, solar power is cost for you fuel from the sky gigabytes, worries about range and charging time. the simple but really of the idea that let 2 companies who proceeded into bankruptcy. so no motors in germany and like in the netherlands to be seen as a lot of ways to ruin the concepts. they put everything into building their own sort of costs and fail. so what's the big deal breakout about solar costs? the 1st we need to understand how they work. that's why we're here in awesome germany with a solar ice team that's on the back. and so this is one of the most efficient

electric vehicles in the world. yes. i mean you can look at it right. it looks like a ping pong table basically, so it doesn't have too much in common with a normal car. this is and we'll do back back in 2017. he was one of the founding members of teams on barton, in awesome 18 to participate in sola racing competitions across the world. for example, in australia, i mean that it looks a bit like a soapbox. like, yeah, like a desktop you could say and it's, and a little bit it writes like that too. so how many kilometers do you care of this thing? depends right. depends totally on the sun, right? if you're driving without the sun, it could be around 600 kilometers. that's a rather small 6 kilowatt hour battery. but if you have a good sun direct sun like, then you can drop and definitely fix it. you can just keep going. of course, it's depending on the speed then, right? if you don't have too much sun, you have to go slower. yeah. and it

has a top speed of 120 kilometers per hour and is covered in full square meters of so the cells and it has only 3 wheels with the engine sitting directly in the wheel in the back of the car to be sufficient. as possible aerodynamics key. just to give you an idea of how light this is when i do this, like the whole cause taking. how much does it weigh? it? it depends little bit on the battery chemistry, but somewhere around a 160 kilograms. okay. yeah, it's just fuel be made of the carbon fiber. everything is, is mills out of titanium or allow me minium car fiber. so light weight is, is definitely the way to go because everything else is more rolling resistance, holding resistance needs more energy. the 1st on the car wasn't even the lights are

in 1955, william g called at general motors design to some mo bile about the size of your hands. in 1962, this 50 year old model baker was equipped with solar cells in 1980 research as a til of university gave the best to the ugly duckling. a tiny car was still a penalty on the roof and put but building. so the cost is a bit more complicated than just slapping, so the sales onto a tiny. com. the 1st big challenge is this sums angle solar cell to generate most energy. when the panels perpendicular to the sun. that's why some sort of pox even ton from out the day. but everything on the car is fixed and round. that means sosa, operating in less ideal conditions. unless you own a competition car during the mandatory stops while racing, they can pop up there. but so you stop, pop up the hood and then you basically have the perfect thing for the sun. just sign on this. yeah,

i don't see that with any normal kind of happiness. the 2nd challenge is that you need to use special solar cells. these close to about $35.00 grand on the top. we have. busy all across the crystal and silicon cells, right? how efficient are these? these are on the 25 percent, right? and it was 4 square meters, so it gives you roughly a peak. i'll put off a kilowatt hour. all these the same sales, the on roof these days, for example, this one you can find on. yeah. on groups for example. but the difference here is to encapsulation, right? this is a very efficient, a calculation that traps the light a little better than you find in the stuff on the roof. because the stuff in the roof and, and also commercial seem to come solar cars has to be more doable, right? don't scratch so fast. and because, as i said, we don't want to get into touch them and that is not feasible for, for commercial vehicle. but the real crux of commercial solar cost is that they are much heavier than they raise costs. and so i can only produce so much power. that's

why making them run only on solar poa is really, really hot. like every other electric vehicles. they also have batteries that can be recharged on the grid. but the solar cells are actually where bankruptcy started for solar cost offs like so much as from germany and light year from the netherlands. because manufacturing the south is quite complex. usually panels of straight part in solar costs. they need to be carved. the electronics become more of a challenge when the, the surface is quite curved. this is less hoss slot, co found out flight. yeah. he also comes from, so that's how racing. because then one sort of cell is a looking at this on, in a different way than the other side of the cell. and then you need complex side tronics to, to still get most of the yield of solar panel. but that's not the only challenge the cells should be robust and shouldn't spence out if the car crashes and integrating them into a cop out isn't easy either. so you start because then what you add is a kind of

a conductive back sheet. it's cold. so basically it's a printed circuit board, but then flexible, and then you pick and blaze the solar cells. on top of that, i print circuit board buying the machines, buying the materials, developing manufacturing processes. and after you did all that, you need to get your newly developed so the cop pods certified for every day streets. all of those costs a lot of money sign motors, good enough for me to to, to 300000000 euros. just to go into mass production, know pocket money for stocks, but solar cells are only one part of the puzzle. the other one being how many kilometers you actually get out of it. and the why the lot of things to consider the size of the solar rate bigger means more generates at the energy location on the globe. some countries get most on then, others time off a year of course shading dust on panel of solar panels aging which makes them less

efficient. and more. i know there are studies that selected and some of the things but not old and it's mostly calculations and not real. will long term tests keep that in mind. so how many kilometers do you get out of this? well, it's varies. anything from 293 kilometers at the low end to $3400.00, up to 5100 kilometers per year. a problem is that all these studies assume different parameters like size off the so that range possible powerhouse put whether the shades or not just an example of how much of a difference that makes that only increasing the p v area. by half the square meter you already get 2078 kilometers, instead of 1444 kilometers per year. that's what so no motors and like you did, they increase the size of the solar rate. so know when for 6 and like you full 5

square meters, projected ranges with $34.00 or 70 columbus has per day, both promises that couldn't be kept. so no, it couldn't raise enough cash. the company is restructuring. i'm selling off that. com and you factoring capacities like your underestimates of manufacturing costs. they plan to sell that like a 0 full 120000 bureaus, but increased it to 250000 zeros due to expensive comp pots they filed for bankruptcy in 2023. it is a very low volume exclusive. can you go that when financial markets change and a lot of focus comes on the actual margins of the products generating, then this debt project is not the perfect fit for the market, right? so that's why we'd have to restructure. they are now trying to build a cheap, a cock cold like you to buy us. still looking for partners and investors. the us start off at tara motors which shut down in 2011 due to lack of funds, but came back in 2019 with new bacchus. looks also great on paper 600. right. and

so what do you free? columbus has a range. 64 additional kilometers per day, costs below $40000.00 us dollars box. when nbc tested the prototype, our test model had some obvious flaws and it could barely make it uphill without over t hour. so i think you're the 1st person ever drivers on groups. not a good look. bought the actually already. so the cost on the right, well kind office. so the cost, the young dies will not talk, for example, hybrid car with a solar car roof, which under ideal conditions will give you 3 to 4 extra kilometers per day. yeah, not that much. it's more of a nice to have design future talking to industry experts and costs supplies, bit common and factors most looking at. so levels as optional. so it's really hard to predict how many vehicles will be actually equipped with it if we don't fundamentally change cause of parents as solar panels, impact will always be quite limited. but what happens if you blow one parameter

completely out of proportion? something that is being tested right now by the truck manufacturer, us scan yet in sweden, in collaboration with folks that are university. are you what's while the has been going on since september the 20, 23 instead of 2 square meters like most cost, the hybrid truck has 113 square meters of solar cells that charge a battery in the trailer for an estimated 5000 kilometers of edit range per year, we expect maybe somewhere around 5 to 10 percent of the energy that that can come from so done in the gym. and that's why i should say that that is also is we've done it, which is um, maybe not the best place to test this. this is eric johansen. he leads the trial and is in charge of the scientific data collection. what book you have seen before? it looks to be your other segment of what the expect actually so that is um, what most surprising similar they even ran the numbers for southern europe and that

could turn out twice as much energy. so there are some great use cases for solar. when vehicles are very light and they are deployed in sunny regions, lucky and 2 units with ease delivery tries that goes all these small boxes for public transport and nigeria that mainly run and so the power so the cost to manufacturers almost when spots we don't know how much energy we're going to get out of it? at which point today you can already put a solar panel on your roof and power your electric vehicle. it's through your cost roof. is that weight that can be used otherwise, but until that has an impact, it's going to take a lot of time. the, if you did like the video, please share like and subscribe to all channels. we personally, if it is on the environment every friday, the

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