Cars That Think
NOVEMBER 25, 2023
As the technology improves, we see it enabling solar panels that work at night as well as day, powering remote sensors. Consider solar radiation, which carries heat from the sun to Earth’s surface. During the daytime, solar radiation comes into the equation. In a later experiment [bottom], a solar cell serves as the emitter.
Cars That Think
FEBRUARY 18, 2022
It ran on 110 volts DC supplied by a large army diesel engine that sat on the back of a truck parked outside. George Porter’s flash of insight at a lighting factory On a trip to collect a mercury arc lamp for the searchlight, Porter saw flash lamps being made at a Siemens factory. Porter and Norrish were about to prove him wrong.
Green Cars News
OCTOBER 27, 2009
The company is also working on the radical Land Glider Concept (see article ) which looks and feels like a mixture between a car, a motorcycle and an aeroplane; and the Nissan Nuvu , a compact all-electric city car with solar panels that can travel 80miles on a single charge.
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