Article is unclear on how much the solar panels add to this. They claim it got over 500 watts from the solar cells. But a Tesla draws over 360kW -- obviously dwarfing the solar cells. This is a tiny little car, so I imagine it requires much, much less -- but "much much less" could easily be 10 kW, which still dwarfs the .5 kW from the solar cells.
I wish we could produce smaller, lighter vehicles in general. Motorcycles can easily get 90+ MPG. If we all had cars as small as this tiny car, we might not have to do anything else about climate change -- even if it had an ICE engine.
Article is unclear on how much the solar panels add to this. They claim it got over 500 watts from the solar cells. But a Tesla draws over 360kW -- obviously dwarfing the solar cells. This is a tiny little car, so I imagine it requires much, much less -- but "much much less" could easily be 10 kW, which still dwarfs the .5 kW from the solar cells.
I wish we could produce smaller, lighter vehicles in general. Motorcycles can easily get 90+ MPG. If we all had cars as small as this tiny car, we might not have to do anything else about climate change -- even if it had an ICE engine.