Solar Car

You said What do you think the design goal was? Originaly it was from the US military's. And actually it is a great design....for war. US people luv the military & they luv status, after the Terminator got one, it was on. It became a Bling Bling Status vehicle rarely used for off road.
You are looking at it from a pure design/utility viewpoint & are clueless of why people plunked down $50K to buy these iron pigs. These were the pimp caddilacs of the early 21st century, get it?

I done told you. Ok maybe you misunderstood, it was a marketing goal, The hummer appealed to people who wanted to flaunt their status, yeah it's for the same moron's who bought McMansions, the very same concept & waste of energy. People who buy Hummer's & or McMansions are not enviroment haters, they are just stupid ignorant people who have a need to display their status with a humongous vehicle or house which is now a joke that they can't get rid of. we use different verbage for the same idea

> No wonder a lot of products are crap. You
> engineers are very stupid. You actually
> think that the design goal of the Hummer
> was to burn as much fossil fuel is possible.
> That is got to be the dumbest statement I
> have ever read on YouTube.

Hmm. What do you think the design goal was?

You do realize a hummer on the street has little resemblance to one on a US highway? They're NOT the same vehicle.

It's just a vehicle for morons to make the statement "F**k you, environment!" That's it.

No wonder a lot of products are crap. You engineers are very stupid. You actually think that the design goal of the Hummer was to burn as much fossil fuel is possible. That is got to be the dumbest statement I have ever read on YouTube.
The design goal was more of a fashion statement, a statement of status, and it just happened to waste a lot of fossil fuels, not that the owners care till now, Now they are trying to get rid of these. What kinda of engineer are you? That is a strange reply.

Friend your kinda clueless, the Hummer became a brand after Arnold Schwangerr bought one after the 1st Gulf war. This vehicle was perfect for the American Psyche. i.e. A humongus truck which makes a statement, a statement about status, it is similar to the "McMansions" in the suburbs. It was not nessacarily as a goal to waste energy, it is simply a side effect of Americans careless attitude to Peak oil, Global warming, greed, arrogance and just about everything that is not good. You are a geek.

> Friend, for Aussie you sure don't get humor,
> that was my point about the hummer....not
> aredynamic. So compartively speaking

The whole point of a Hummer is to waste energy. That's the whole purpose of it's design.

They met their design goal.

Now, do these solar cars meet their design goal? My point is that they're designed cars like they were first being built.

Friend, for Aussie you sure don't get humor, that was my point about the hummer....not aredynamic. So compartively speaking these college or high school students solar car is probaly more areodynamic then a hummer.
This is all academic, because your averge Joe or Jane America really has no idea what Peak Oil is about and what is coming at them like a unstoppable freigt train in the next 10 years.

> I'm not an engineer but obviously these are
> school students just showing that cars can be
> run on solar.

These are college students. They ought to be doing a better job than this. Australia has a solar race every year, what I saw here doesn't compete against anything I've seen there since 1980.

And a Hummer is an idiot's car.

I'm not an engineer but obviously these are school students just showing that cars can be run on solar. I don't think these students have any intention of selling these as ford's or chryslers.
Also how areodynamic is a hummer?
People will be riding mules in a few years if you know anything about peak oil.
Hey do you know where I can get an areodynamic mule?

> It may not seem practical, but when your gas
> powered vehicle is sitting in the weeds a
> solar power vehicle may be better then
> nothing.

I'm not complaining about practicality, I'm complaining that it was very poorly designed. I'm an EE, and even I can recognize that no effort was made to make it aerodynamic.

And solar cars would be entirely practical, if the speed limit was 30 and I don't think that's much to give up either. People will never do it willingly though, too short sighted.

It may not seem practical, but when your gas powered vehicle is sitting in the weeds a solar power vehicle may be better then nothing.

I don't get the point of these anymore.

None of these seems to have ever gone through a wind tunnel, none of them are really practical as a motor vehicle, and there are already much better and efficient designs from 30 years ago.

Can you make it so that the sunlight is focused to split atoms and give it super nuke-jet power??

check who daniel dingel is

sorry...but its kinda lame :(