Loved your enthusiasm Anna Matthews. Your explanations of the project is truly inspiring. I'm sure you're on to great things (maths + environment = great engineer).
what a great video! i love seeing what these young people are doing. evolution of a vehicle segment takes time. it looks like the future of solar/ electric vehicles is in good hands!
If Aptera survives to make a four passenger vehicle, do you think it will end up looking like this? 620 miles on 38 kWh ain't too shabby. Did you notice it has hub motors?
@@robertkirchner7981 cool car! I like the tire width. Less wind drag and probably better in snow. To make this car consumer ready of course adding AC, Heating, Air bags, comfortable seating and getting it ready for crash testing would likely add a lot of bulk. I can't wait until these young people start their own companies or join others like Aptera and change personal transportation for the better!
Remember covering the 1999 World solar challenge and the big presence of BP solar. Ten years later BP solar was gone and around that time, the proliferation of imported solar products stopped, and withing two years, solar panels and controlers all but diasapeared from the store shelves in Canada. What happened?
Somehow the numbers arent adding up for me. If the vehicle can travel 1,000km (or better) on a 37.5kWh charge, that's at least 27km/kWh. This sounds fairly realistic, considering Aptera claims around 16km/kWh. With 1.2kW of solar, assuming around 4 kWh/m2 daily POA irradiation, that would be well over 100km of daily solar range (for reference, Aptera claims 60). Why then did the engineer claim only 26km of daily solar range? Edit: maybe the engineer meant 26km per hour of full sunlight! This would make sense. Or that you could drive 26kph steady state during full sun
Just commenting to boost up your comment in the chain. I was wondering the same thing so I'm really hoping one of the students see this and is willing to explain.
I'm extremely unimpressed by the performance figures she is quoting. Either she cannot do math, or the rubbish electronic systems are stealing most of the energy.
Which would not be surprising. They have so many rules requiring stupid computer babysitting systems to try and stop their stupid lithium battery systems from catching fire. I can move a 13 ton yacht over 50km in a day on half the solar panels they are using. I built a 20ft long 8ft wide full standing height amphibious mobile home that 300W of panels gave over 100km of range on road or water per day. Using junkyard car batteries, and brushed Dc motors. This Solar challenge crap has turned into a way of marketing solar vehicles as impossible. I could take that chassis, gut the motors, electronics and batteries, equip it with a mobility scooter brushed motor, transmission gears, series to parallel switching for speed control, using nickel iron batteries proven to last a century, work at any temperature, and handle any amount of heavy discharge or overcharge. Still available from China. And make it do twice the range in a day with a weight reduction too. We had 10x more efficient electric cars before WW1. You should not need more than 5kW of motor for a vehicle like this, to do 100kmhr and climb any hill. Look at Jay Lenos 1909 Baker Electric for example. 6kWhr of batteries, 160km range, 2hp brushed motor with 6hp max rating. It's a Friggen truck compared to this! These kids are being used to scam us. They need to demand back their student fees, leave school, and start their own independent solar challenge event, which is not controlled by the thuggery of entrenched big corporate auto industry interests. WAKE UP KIDS! Stop letting yourselves be used to scam the world with this shitefruckery!
@@Maungateitei I think the engineer must have just miscommunicated. You can't win events with solar racers that are not engineered to the razor's edge.
Looks like a great car. I hope more realistic cars like Sono Motors Sion will hit the road soon. Lightyear is too expensive, and the car in the video and Aptera a bit extreme.
38kwh battery with 1200watts solar gave 1,000km over 12 hrs( looked overcast on that day so solar probably didn't add much, also track was quite hilly not flat) Thats 621 miles is the world record. 3,800whr/621miles gives 6.2wh/mile. So thats a measured real world result verified. Aptera is claiming 10wh/mile, lets see them do a 12hr run and see how far they actually get. I dont think they would last 12hrs firstly, secondly the 10wh/mile is theoretical not tested in real world. Aptera is claiming worlds most efficient solar vehicle and are taking money from people who want to buy one, but they never produce them, lets see them do a real world test with guiness world record there to be unbiased assessors. They wont do it cause they know the real world results will be either a break down or much lower distance than they are telling people. Why do you think they have never done one of these tests?
This could be Australia's Aptera. However, I don't know if the Australian standards for 2 & 3 wheel vehicles are as different from those for 4 wheel vehicles as they are in these United States. The 4 wheel standards have negative impact on EV efficiency that the 2 & 3 wheel standards don't. Oh, as an aside, when she seemed to talk in glowing terms about mainland China being "leaders" due to its government, I got the impression she isn't aware that the government there is a totalitarian communist dictatorship. It just orders something be done and to hell about the people's desires. In Australia, she can disagree and protest government decisions; doing the same in Red China she would be arrested, imprisoned and possibly even executed.
I think she was only commenting on the pragmatic aspects of Chinese government. We should make sure young people are educated about these things, adjust say no policy is ineffective. It sounds like Australia, like US have a complicated relationship with China, we need to stop giving up our tech, like us did with Texas Instruments, etc. Hopefully recent US policies to protect artificial intelligence will help.
Aptera missed out on being first to deliver a car that has solar charging and Aptera seems to be perpetually screwing up. The world does not need three wheel two seat vehicles.
All the smart people that lost to that team must feel pretty dumb. I mean they didn't just loose the competition to them but the idiots hold 2 consecutive word records. I guess the smart people should have tried harder.
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Loved your enthusiasm Anna Matthews. Your explanations of the project is truly inspiring. I'm sure you're on to great things (maths + environment = great engineer).
The world would be a much better place if we have more Anna Matthews in this world.
what a great video! i love seeing what these young people are doing. evolution of a vehicle segment takes time. it looks like the future of solar/ electric vehicles is in good hands!
Excellent video!!! These young people are amazing!
Thank you. Appreciate it 🙏.
If Aptera survives to make a four passenger vehicle, do you think it will end up looking like this?
620 miles on 38 kWh ain't too shabby.
Did you notice it has hub motors?
@@robertkirchner7981 cool car! I like the tire width. Less wind drag and probably better in snow. To make this car consumer ready of course adding AC, Heating, Air bags, comfortable seating and getting it ready for crash testing would likely add a lot of bulk. I can't wait until these young people start their own companies or join others like Aptera and change personal transportation for the better!
im heading to San Diego this week and hope to see more of this at Pecto Park on the 14th!
What is scheduled at Petco Park on the 14th? I live in San Diego and would love to see this vehicle in person myself.
Remember covering the 1999 World solar challenge and the big presence of BP solar. Ten years later BP solar was gone and around that time, the proliferation of imported solar products stopped, and withing two years, solar panels and controlers all but diasapeared from the store shelves in Canada. What happened?
Wow such a wholesome interview 👏
Thank you.
Somehow the numbers arent adding up for me. If the vehicle can travel 1,000km (or better) on a 37.5kWh charge, that's at least 27km/kWh. This sounds fairly realistic, considering Aptera claims around 16km/kWh.
With 1.2kW of solar, assuming around 4 kWh/m2 daily POA irradiation, that would be well over 100km of daily solar range (for reference, Aptera claims 60). Why then did the engineer claim only 26km of daily solar range?
Edit: maybe the engineer meant 26km per hour of full sunlight! This would make sense. Or that you could drive 26kph steady state during full sun
Aptera is breaking records in everything. These students can't even sit inside the car because it's too hot? geeezzz
Just commenting to boost up your comment in the chain. I was wondering the same thing so I'm really hoping one of the students see this and is willing to explain.
I'm extremely unimpressed by the performance figures she is quoting. Either she cannot do math, or the rubbish electronic systems are stealing most of the energy.
Which would not be surprising. They have so many rules requiring stupid computer babysitting systems to try and stop their stupid lithium battery systems from catching fire.
I can move a 13 ton yacht over 50km in a day on half the solar panels they are using.
I built a 20ft long 8ft wide full standing height amphibious mobile home that 300W of panels gave over 100km of range on road or water per day.
Using junkyard car batteries, and brushed Dc motors.
This Solar challenge crap has turned into a way of marketing solar vehicles as impossible.
I could take that chassis, gut the motors, electronics and batteries, equip it with a mobility scooter brushed motor, transmission gears, series to parallel switching for speed control, using nickel iron batteries proven to last a century, work at any temperature, and handle any amount of heavy discharge or overcharge.
Still available from China.
And make it do twice the range in a day with a weight reduction too.
We had 10x more efficient electric cars before WW1.
You should not need more than 5kW of motor for a vehicle like this, to do 100kmhr and climb any hill.
Look at Jay Lenos 1909 Baker Electric for example.
6kWhr of batteries, 160km range, 2hp brushed motor with 6hp max rating.
It's a Friggen truck compared to this!
These kids are being used to scam us.
They need to demand back their student fees, leave school, and start their own independent solar challenge event, which is not controlled by the thuggery of entrenched big corporate auto industry interests.
WAKE UP KIDS!
Stop letting yourselves be used to scam the world with this shitefruckery!
@@Maungateitei I think the engineer must have just miscommunicated. You can't win events with solar racers that are not engineered to the razor's edge.
Looks like a great car.
I hope more realistic cars like Sono Motors Sion will hit the road soon.
Lightyear is too expensive, and the car in the video and Aptera a bit extreme.
Yeah, I hope someone will make something like the Sion in the near future. That really was the car I wanted.
Woah so knowledgable
38kwh battery with 1200watts solar gave 1,000km over 12 hrs( looked overcast on that day so solar probably didn't add much, also track was quite hilly not flat)
Thats 621 miles is the world record. 3,800whr/621miles gives 6.2wh/mile.
So thats a measured real world result verified. Aptera is claiming 10wh/mile, lets see them do a 12hr run and see how far they actually get. I dont think they would last 12hrs firstly, secondly the 10wh/mile is theoretical not tested in real world.
Aptera is claiming worlds most efficient solar vehicle and are taking money from people who want to buy one, but they never produce them, lets see them do a real world test with guiness world record there to be unbiased assessors. They wont do it cause they know the real world results will be either a break down or much lower distance than they are telling people. Why do you think they have never done one of these tests?
This could be Australia's Aptera. However, I don't know if the Australian standards for 2 & 3 wheel vehicles are as different from those for 4 wheel vehicles as they are in these United States. The 4 wheel standards have negative impact on EV efficiency that the 2 & 3 wheel standards don't. Oh, as an aside, when she seemed to talk in glowing terms about mainland China being "leaders" due to its government, I got the impression she isn't aware that the government there is a totalitarian communist dictatorship. It just orders something be done and to hell about the people's desires. In Australia, she can disagree and protest government decisions; doing the same in Red China she would be arrested, imprisoned and possibly even executed.
I think she was only commenting on the pragmatic aspects of Chinese government. We should make sure young people are educated about these things, adjust say no policy is ineffective. It sounds like Australia, like US have a complicated relationship with China, we need to stop giving up our tech, like us did with Texas Instruments, etc. Hopefully recent US policies to protect artificial intelligence will help.
very interesting ideas@@rp9674
Hopefully far more successful than Aptera which seems like a demonstration in poor management
They should have studied the Aptera, it's already getting better results and goes into production next year.
We look forward to Aptera! looks amazing.
Aptera has never achieved any measurable results and it won't be produced in 2024 as you suggested.
Soo.. Achieving a faster more efficient photonic exchange rate! Hopefully we change the test cause.. My booty kinda yahh
Aptera is leading the way in solar cars. Listening to her describe the car makes think they are all idiots.
Aptera missed out on being first to deliver a car that has solar charging and Aptera seems to be perpetually screwing up. The world does not need three wheel two seat vehicles.
All the smart people that lost to that team must feel pretty dumb. I mean they didn't just loose the competition to them but the idiots hold 2 consecutive word records. I guess the smart people should have tried harder.