ELECTRICAL CAR USING SOLAR ENERGY

The goal of this project is to show the technical possibility of the use of photovoltaics to provide energy to a car. More specifically, the project has to demonstrate that a photovoltaic installation covering the roof of a typical garage (10-20sq m2) provides a large fraction of the daily energy needed to drive an electrical car over a daily distance of 40 km (typical for an average car). The Heverlee Campus of the University of Leuven, Belgium, was selected for the demonstration.

• Corporate Authors:

  Commission of the European Communities

  Directorate-General for Information, Market and Innovation
  Luxembourg,   Luxembourg 
• Publication Date: 1984

Media Info

• Pagination: 39 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Electric automobiles; Solar energy; Solar power generation
• Subject Areas: Highways; Vehicles and Equipment; I91: Vehicle Design and Safety;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00450071
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Energy Research Abstracts
• Report/Paper Numbers: EUR-9039-EN
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Aug 27 2004 8:56PM