@@danieltrujeque5184no? You turned the things around. Consuming more power than there is stored is impossible, but consumong more than generated at that moment is possible, you will just use some of the storrd mower. If you think generating and not using all of it is impossible, wat till you learn about batteries.
@@manohousing5237 All systems loose power dumbass, it’s called thermodynamics. It doesn’t matter how many batteries you use cause you’ve still gotta charge them using more power. And no, your wall socket isn’t a perpetual energy source just because you don’t have to charge it. The draw is just being offloaded elsewhere. Also learn to spell
1. You Can generate more energy then you consume 2. You can consume more power then what is stored. However both are false if the system is perturbed / subject to external influence
I spent a month in Scotland and it set a new record while I was there of raining for 31 days straight! It was dismal. Waking up it's raining, all morning, it's raining, stops for a couple of hours and then started raining again, go to bed, it's raining and when you get up? Surprise, it's still raining. I wondered when they could ever play golf in order to invent the game.
But, always a silver lining... it's lucky for us it rains so much there. Otherwise you'd probably all pile into solar powered boats and come to Australia...
@2Evil2Hope didnt think of that. I was thinking having some wooden carts with all my crap in them like a bike train with the panels on top, but yea, I think the extra weight would ruin the idea too. Maybe just as passive charge?
So for an xc road biking tour in a place like canada or usa, this is a real solution. Imagine thes solar panels on top of 2 thule narrow boxes and fast road wheels. You could likely cruise every normal paved road a car would take. Up hill. Down hill. Flat lands. The thule boxes could carry tent, food, stove, clothes, etc for full trip
@@Anthony123212 Could it be possible to even have these solar panels?Foldable into one trailer... And use them to recharge your battery on your electric bike when you get to a stop
@@tonyhowes669 problem is carrying that mutch weight would end up either, being slow, or forcing it to go fast but consume a lot of power. Just a normal e bike only runs for around 20-40 miles so imagine how much shorter that would be when it's got loads of stuff on the back. And then charging it from solar panels would take hours. Not trying to be that guy that's pointing the negatives out lol
@Filbo_FragginsPack like a bicycle tourist into an aluminum box that doubles as the trailer frame center. If your camp (excepting water) adds more than 40 pounds to your rig, rethink it. Bike must have regenerative braking if this is going to work in the hills. Additional batteries to plug into the bike would help spread the midday sun longer.
@@tonyhowes669 Dang sorry it took me awhile to respond. I was planning on doing an extremely lightweight trailer. I do ultralight backpacking, so I’m already use to that weight and have the equipment. I currently have a flexible 200W ultra thin solar panel. Then I’d bring one of my small inverters and a boat battery. I wouldn’t solely rely on the solar though, for sure. It would be used if I found a nice spot to relax at the end of the day, or even a camping spot for a few days to charge it as much as I can. I’d presumably have to rely on free public power, or campsites that have plug ins along the way as well. As long as I plan my trip out well enough, I can power up in cities and hopefully just use the battery as a back up for emergency/top up in between, though.
At 25mph all motor you're pulling closer to 700w. Thats why the government puts a 750w regulation on them. I did this exact thing with an electric skateboard and still had to stop just a little less often than normal to let it charge. I used a bicycle trailer with a boat battery and harbor freight panels. The panels charged the boat battery, the boat battery charged a spare battery and the board battery. Made it to the beach from Fayetteville NC just stopped to eat.
@Av987 so around 750watts= 1hp. One horse power can only reach a maximum top speed looking at weight and gear ratios. 750watts can't give you 30+ mph with an adult male drawing max amperage. I build electric bikes, motorcycles, and skateboards for a decade now. Build my own batteries, pretty much everything except producing my own esc, but I do program them very well. I have a skateboard that has been within 13mph of the world record speed. Yes this is how electricity works
Bro if you had some antigravity batteries you’d lose a lot of wait and get more power for longer you should make a v2 with new lithium battery packs could see a huge improvement
This is what I hope the future of electric vehicles becomes someday. It would be crazy to be able to drive and never have to stop cause your car is being charged constantly with solar panels.
They already have cars with solar panels but its way harder to make it self sustaining because the sun isn’t very reliable and a car takes so much more power
I think a better solution would be to have a small and highly efficient hydrogen generator to power the electric motors. Pair that with a water to hydrogen cell and you got a car that runs on water. Of course they already did this but the founder died unexpectedly . . . .
All semi trailer should be equip with solar when you think about it. Probably not strong enough for the engine. But it could definitely power up a-lot of different components.
??? That's what an alternator is for. Clean energy as a bi product of the engine running.... To add solar to vehicle applications you'd need dc-dc charger and run everything off batteries while the solar charges them. This bike isn't solar directly to a motor, and projects that are designed to run 100% off the solar panel would be extremely impractical anywhere other than the equator maybe. But a semi, completely useless to add solar..
@@BjörnBöttjer not a surprise at all (fuel* not just gas) but it's by such little percentage that it's still the most efficient way to power the computer and other electronics in a vehicle while also keeping your battery charged... P.s. should say "fuel consumption" not gas consumption because most semi trucks are diesel, not gas.. and when speaking in general; not all vehicles are petroleum/gasoline either. I just built a custom 1983 diesel pick up, I know what engines and their components do. Any resistance added to the engine increases fuel consumption. That's why pulleys are different sizes, and gear ratios are important. The best we can do is increase efficiency, but there is a balance of energy input to energy output. If you want to be green, don't use anything that requires a mine, or refinery to obtain/create. Ps. I live on solar, I am fully supportive of using solar, but in vehicle applications it is impractical. Charging an electric car off solar is as good as it gets, but guess what, the production of solar components and lithium ion batteries is more damaging to the earth than the production of fossil fuels! Haha. So for vehicle applications what's the point? That's why I use lead acid deep cycle batteries! Lead acid are still fully recyclable batteries while lithium ion batteries are more expensive, can spontaneously combust, and they are non- recyclable..
Thats odd. For me to hold 20 mph on a flat I need to pull about 500 watts at 280 pounds on a mountain bike with 1000 watt eBike system. When I am pulling small trailer with kid, 70 pounds more, i need the full 1,000 watts on a flat and I am doing about 24 mph. But then again, of I am 150 vs 280 pounds this might cut the power demand in half. The biggest oroblem I find with electric limitations by law is that the law is not setup to accommodate for heavy people. 300 pound people need 2,000 watts to get up that hill and 150 pound people do fine with 750 watts on the same hill
Anybody who understands the absolute basics of solar energy, knows it’s NOT the start of things to come. It can’t be improved, it isn’t ever going to be practical. Now get back in your box
You need to do a stinger steer trailer so that the trailers follow each other instead of off tracking. Look at how a logging truck is set up for instance.
It's not about the strength, I am talking about a type of hitch that makes the trailer follow in the same track as the one in front and avoids all the off-tracking on curves. Basically it pushes the front of the trailer to the outside of the curve compared to the rear of the vehicle in front, so that the rear of each trailer runs in the same tracks as the rear of the first vehicle. @@FFLFFS
@@Darion350but by making it possible to make turns it is a positive tradeoff. It also would not increase rolling resistance, because it would not touch the ground.
@@Darion350. No. Every wheel will roll independently, so a normal trailer hitch will work, no more resistance than any other configuration. All turns add resistance.
The main problem with going wider will be extra wind drag on the front edge of the panels. The bike will have to work harder to overcome that and use more energy.
The angle is very important for power generation. The more degrees away from the Sun you go, The panel would rapidly lose power generation capability, so even if you had double the panels arranged in a teepee, you still probably going to generate less power than this flat system. And then if you made them flat still but as wide as a car, at that point you're basically talking about a bicycle the size of a Jeep carrying a trailer..
This project isnt worth a million. Highschool engineering teams make better stuff. Not saying what this guy did isnt cool, good for him, looks fun. But there is nothing revolutionary or impressive here
Double them up, reducing length with enough pitch, like a roof to reduce width, and have each resulting duo set up with a lightweight hitch and pin set-up so you can corner. Could achieve practicality.
Would use dual battery with that setup, so I could use it on cycle. While the other one is in use, the other one is charging. And then switch it back to the charged one so you can recharge the other one.
With some modifications, I think it could work. Maybe with experimenting with putting the panels around the bike and reducing the top speed... also there are new solar panels that use a different element that allows a wider range of light to be converted into energy and I think we are close to a 100% solar bike.
I was rolling my eyes a little until he said, "Its completely unpractical to ride." Seriously bro thats a pretty sweet experiment. Im just glad you didn't try to fool anyone by saying this could be any kinda solution. A hybrid version of this would be sweet, though. Downsize it a little and place the panels so you aren't dragging a trailer and you can get a little extra mileage on a sunny day with your ebike! I call it a win!
What that tells me is that if we can increase the efficiency of solar panels by 5x and have them flexible, then a solar panel covered backpack would effectively provide endless power during daylight
Solar panels are only about 25% efficient at best for typical usage, lab expirements have gotten even higher but if they could one day get to be 50% or higher suddenly solar will become way more practical
That could be implemented in hibryd trucks. Cover the trailer roof with panels, put an electric motor to help the combustion one when possible like at cruissing speed and reduce the overall gas conssumption.
Trucks are too heavy. You would get a few extra KMs though. If panels get more efficient and lighter and batteries better maybe you could roll one out in the day and travel at night though..
Perpetual motion (work) is impossible. An alternator wired to an electric motor will not work. The closest man has come is the magnificent sail boat and sail plane.
@@paDdywitha if you want to catch light with mirrors you need footprint, same problem as the panels. Power is proportional to the surface exposed to sunlight. Look at commercial solar panel array power plants, nothing is stacked and there are no mirrors.
I saw this guy take a solar panel for like a house he has a 3 wheel bike and he had cardboard all over surrounding himself to keep him warm he also had a small electric motor and the solar panel gave him enough charge to charge his phone or to have a heater running well he rode as well as it ran his little motor enough for him to only have to pedal slowly it was kinda genius for the homeless guy
A good battery and a flexable light panel you could roll out and charge during the day. Travel at night. I dont think panels are quite there yet but could be a thing one day soon.
Imagine if he had twice as efficient panels. They'd take up half the space for the same power output. Making it possibly lighter and more efficient. Will be fun to see what the future holds.
This will be so badass to have with you at all times in your car so if you broke down and take it back down off the bike rack and unfold your solar panels assemble the solar panel chassis and the you're good to go
25 mph and generating more power than using. That's pretty badass
No thats not what its doing. Generating more power than you consume is impossible
@@danieltrujeque5184wait untill you discover energy can be stored.
@@danieltrujeque5184no? You turned the things around. Consuming more power than there is stored is impossible, but consumong more than generated at that moment is possible, you will just use some of the storrd mower. If you think generating and not using all of it is impossible, wat till you learn about batteries.
@@manohousing5237 All systems loose power dumbass, it’s called thermodynamics. It doesn’t matter how many batteries you use cause you’ve still gotta charge them using more power. And no, your wall socket isn’t a perpetual energy source just because you don’t have to charge it. The draw is just being offloaded elsewhere. Also learn to spell
1. You Can generate more energy then you consume
2. You can consume more power then what is stored.
However both are false if the system is perturbed / subject to external influence
shame it wont work in the uk, only 19 minutes of sunshine in the last 2 weeks lmao
No, but you could strap a small gasoline generator on an ebike trailer and get 100 mpg easily
i guess
I spent a month in Scotland and it set a new record while I was there of raining for 31 days straight! It was dismal. Waking up it's raining, all morning, it's raining, stops for a couple of hours and then started raining again, go to bed, it's raining and when you get up? Surprise, it's still raining. I wondered when they could ever play golf in order to invent the game.
But, always a silver lining... it's lucky for us it rains so much there. Otherwise you'd probably all pile into solar powered boats and come to Australia...
😂😂😂😂@@BillKinsman😂😂😂😂
Bro needs a CDL for that bike😂
A commercial drivers license? Do you even know what that is?
@@evognayr Do you even know what a joke is?
@@evognayryou need a license for that brain
@@evognayrRyan couldn’t comprehend his stupidity it seems
With a T endorsement for LCV's 😂
Engineering and tech colleges do this every year across multiple continents. It’s called the solar car race. They get up to 80 mph at times.
Yes, and they've also developed a solar powered plane ad well...
The impressive part is that he’s able to do this with off-the-shelf solar
and every 2 years in Australia Darwin to Adelaide
@@Terinjim that took about a year to get round the planet
@@jessepatterson8897 don't most students use off the shelf components too? Maybe not jellybean components but it's off the shelf components too
Im old enough to remember it was a huge accomplishment when MIT did this years ago it was the size of a car made of panels placed around a bike
im pretty sure they still do this and race them, its called like solar car races or smth
@@cipeman3498 the World Solar Challenge in Australia, there will be one again in 2025
I remember and that’s the first thing that came to mind when I saw this.
many universities did it. it wasn't that big a deal.
they did it years after an inventor did it like 20+ years ago
Just need 1 400watt panel.
I can see this being used in a post apocalypse scenario
There aren't smooth roads in post-apocalyptic world. Those are definitely necessary for this to be feasible.
@@2Evil2Hopeyeah who says we won’t evolve the bike Buddy 😂
Goodluck making new solar panels after it breaks down
In most appcalypse situations the sun will be blocked by debris in the atmosphere! Asteroid strike, supervolcano, nuclear exchange...
@2Evil2Hope didnt think of that. I was thinking having some wooden carts with all my crap in them like a bike train with the panels on top, but yea, I think the extra weight would ruin the idea too. Maybe just as passive charge?
Great proof of concept. Now to make the solar power collection more manageable. Efficiency of the array and its shape design, need to be tackled.
Can't be done. Even with ~100% efficiency, you won't get any better than 1000W/m^2. And with nowadays solar panels you get 150 to maybe 300W/m^2.
So for an xc road biking tour in a place like canada or usa, this is a real solution. Imagine thes solar panels on top of 2 thule narrow boxes and fast road wheels. You could likely cruise every normal paved road a car would take. Up hill. Down hill. Flat lands. The thule boxes could carry tent, food, stove, clothes, etc for full trip
This is more or less what I’m planning on doing in the next few years. Just need the bike and trailer now.
@@Anthony123212 Could it be possible to even have these solar panels?Foldable into one trailer... And use them to recharge your battery on your electric bike when you get to a stop
@@tonyhowes669 problem is carrying that mutch weight would end up either, being slow, or forcing it to go fast but consume a lot of power. Just a normal e bike only runs for around 20-40 miles so imagine how much shorter that would be when it's got loads of stuff on the back. And then charging it from solar panels would take hours. Not trying to be that guy that's pointing the negatives out lol
@Filbo_FragginsPack like a bicycle tourist into an aluminum box that doubles as the trailer frame center. If your camp (excepting water) adds more than 40 pounds to your rig, rethink it. Bike must have regenerative braking if this is going to work in the hills. Additional batteries to plug into the bike would help spread the midday sun longer.
@@tonyhowes669 Dang sorry it took me awhile to respond.
I was planning on doing an extremely lightweight trailer. I do ultralight backpacking, so I’m already use to that weight and have the equipment.
I currently have a flexible 200W ultra thin solar panel. Then I’d bring one of my small inverters and a boat battery.
I wouldn’t solely rely on the solar though, for sure. It would be used if I found a nice spot to relax at the end of the day, or even a camping spot for a few days to charge it as much as I can.
I’d presumably have to rely on free public power, or campsites that have plug ins along the way as well.
As long as I plan my trip out well enough, I can power up in cities and hopefully just use the battery as a back up for emergency/top up in between, though.
At 25mph all motor you're pulling closer to 700w. Thats why the government puts a 750w regulation on them. I did this exact thing with an electric skateboard and still had to stop just a little less often than normal to let it charge. I used a bicycle trailer with a boat battery and harbor freight panels. The panels charged the boat battery, the boat battery charged a spare battery and the board battery. Made it to the beach from Fayetteville NC just stopped to eat.
750 watt at what voltage?
My 52 volt 750 watt bike has way power than a 36 volt 750 watt.
@Mr2Bsquared1 higher voltage = higher rpm. Watts are Watts. Volts x amps 750 watts is 750 watts. The only difference is gearing
@@oscarcollinsivthat’s not how electricity works at all
@Av987 so around 750watts= 1hp. One horse power can only reach a maximum top speed looking at weight and gear ratios. 750watts can't give you 30+ mph with an adult male drawing max amperage. I build electric bikes, motorcycles, and skateboards for a decade now. Build my own batteries, pretty much everything except producing my own esc, but I do program them very well. I have a skateboard that has been within 13mph of the world record speed. Yes this is how electricity works
Bro if you had some antigravity batteries you’d lose a lot of wait and get more power for longer you should make a v2 with new lithium battery packs could see a huge improvement
This is what I hope the future of electric vehicles becomes someday. It would be crazy to be able to drive and never have to stop cause your car is being charged constantly with solar panels.
Except to move a car you’re talking like 200x more panels needed.
They already have cars with solar panels but its way harder to make it self sustaining because the sun isn’t very reliable and a car takes so much more power
@@simperingham I mean right now yeah, but hopefully technology advances enough to allow for just one solar panel to be able to do that
I think a better solution would be to have a small and highly efficient hydrogen generator to power the electric motors. Pair that with a water to hydrogen cell and you got a car that runs on water. Of course they already did this but the founder died unexpectedly . . . .
@@zebracake2246my boy Stanley Yeltnats…the 4th? Oh wait I mean, Stanley Meyers right?
All semi trailer should be equip with solar when you think about it. Probably not strong enough for the engine. But it could definitely power up a-lot of different components.
Some have it
Yes but hail storm and have to replace low trees and replace but certainly not to bad
??? That's what an alternator is for. Clean energy as a bi product of the engine running.... To add solar to vehicle applications you'd need dc-dc charger and run everything off batteries while the solar charges them. This bike isn't solar directly to a motor, and projects that are designed to run 100% off the solar panel would be extremely impractical anywhere other than the equator maybe. But a semi, completely useless to add solar..
@@michaelgibson5638surprise, gas consumption goes down if the alternator is removed
@@BjörnBöttjer not a surprise at all (fuel* not just gas) but it's by such little percentage that it's still the most efficient way to power the computer and other electronics in a vehicle while also keeping your battery charged... P.s. should say "fuel consumption" not gas consumption because most semi trucks are diesel, not gas.. and when speaking in general; not all vehicles are petroleum/gasoline either.
I just built a custom 1983 diesel pick up, I know what engines and their components do. Any resistance added to the engine increases fuel consumption. That's why pulleys are different sizes, and gear ratios are important. The best we can do is increase efficiency, but there is a balance of energy input to energy output. If you want to be green, don't use anything that requires a mine, or refinery to obtain/create.
Ps. I live on solar, I am fully supportive of using solar, but in vehicle applications it is impractical. Charging an electric car off solar is as good as it gets, but guess what, the production of solar components and lithium ion batteries is more damaging to the earth than the production of fossil fuels! Haha. So for vehicle applications what's the point? That's why I use lead acid deep cycle batteries! Lead acid are still fully recyclable batteries while lithium ion batteries are more expensive, can spontaneously combust, and they are non- recyclable..
Thats odd. For me to hold 20 mph on a flat I need to pull about 500 watts at 280 pounds on a mountain bike with 1000 watt eBike system. When I am pulling small trailer with kid, 70 pounds more, i need the full 1,000 watts on a flat and I am doing about 24 mph. But then again, of I am 150 vs 280 pounds this might cut the power demand in half. The biggest oroblem I find with electric limitations by law is that the law is not setup to accommodate for heavy people. 300 pound people need 2,000 watts to get up that hill and 150 pound people do fine with 750 watts on the same hill
Yep I you are 300 lbs you probably should have a pretty hefty bike anyway
Just for safety weight ratings on bikes are alot less than 300 just saying
Start of things to come 💪🏻
Ya highly doubt it
@@naturefix290well you’re not very smart…..solar panel efficiency will only improve and size will decrease .
clouds.
@@thedevonaitor ok we already have nuclear power, why ride around on a bike 5 car lengths long. It’s just dumb
Anybody who understands the absolute basics of solar energy, knows it’s NOT the start of things to come. It can’t be improved, it isn’t ever going to be practical. Now get back in your box
Wondering if you could use a series of mirrors to condense the panels to a shorter trailer of panels.
Thats dope, thanks for showing this in practice
😂 he really got them saying WOW😂
You need to do a stinger steer trailer so that the trailers follow each other instead of off tracking.
Look at how a logging truck is set up for instance.
Simple articulating joints for such a light load would be all you need.
It's not about the strength, I am talking about a type of hitch that makes the trailer follow in the same track as the one in front and avoids all the off-tracking on curves.
Basically it pushes the front of the trailer to the outside of the curve compared to the rear of the vehicle in front, so that the rear of each trailer runs in the same tracks as the rear of the first vehicle.
@@FFLFFS
@@ke6gwf You'll be increasing rolling resistance and weight by quite a bit, though.
@@Darion350but by making it possible to make turns it is a positive tradeoff.
It also would not increase rolling resistance, because it would not touch the ground.
@@Darion350. No. Every wheel will roll independently, so a normal trailer hitch will work, no more resistance than any other configuration. All turns add resistance.
Success feels so good, blessings for his journeys ahead.
I recommend going wider instead of longer due to having to take sharper turns if you go three wide you can take sharper corners
The main problem with going wider will be extra wind drag on the front edge of the panels. The bike will have to work harder to overcome that and use more energy.
Use steerable panel frames "trailers" so the train follows the bike radius around the turns.
that also cools down the panels increasing efficiency
Excellent job!!
I've been wanting to do this except using a railcar, the solar panels could be up top providing shade as you cross deserts. I think it's plausible
Proper motor, proper cells. I'd like to see what you can accomplish. Good job
So, designed properly you could design a protective shell both for protection and energy absorbing, you have the necessary square footage.
BRILLIANT!!!
Where can I get a setup for like that for my ebike?😊
Why not make it wider instead of longer?.. angle them inward
That's what I thought.
The angle is very important for power generation. The more degrees away from the Sun you go, The panel would rapidly lose power generation capability, so even if you had double the panels arranged in a teepee, you still probably going to generate less power than this flat system.
And then if you made them flat still but as wide as a car, at that point you're basically talking about a bicycle the size of a Jeep carrying a trailer..
Yes, that way he can just ride in the traffic lane instead of the shoulder
think using a v configuration and shortening the length of your paneled trailer would still get got absorbtion?
Masterful! Get this guy a million dollars! I have too much engineering experience, and I’m 48 years old. My hats off to this guy. ♥️
This project isnt worth a million. Highschool engineering teams make better stuff.
Not saying what this guy did isnt cool, good for him, looks fun.
But there is nothing revolutionary or impressive here
Can you make pancakes?
Going into on coming traffic when going around a corner doesn't seem all that smart. I'd go with stationary panels and charge the bike battery..
Double them up, reducing length with enough pitch, like a roof to reduce width, and have each resulting duo set up with a lightweight hitch and pin set-up so you can corner. Could achieve practicality.
Put one in front and over head now you have a car shape bike.
I don't think that's impractical. It's not much different than the length of a pickup truck. That's awesome!
Good luck getting past the Karens on the bike path
the first car wasn't very practical
Would 2 wide 3 long work better? I think it would fit in a lane
“Power is nothing without control”
Does it have batteries or is it directly coupled
We need to improve solar panelz make smaller more effective
Big smile 😊 good work mate 👍👍
Impractical for all us vampires
Can u turn them solar panels into a roof panel on the bike? For Sun protection and rain if it rains.
Need to put pivot points like a semi at least one half way down
Yeah, alternate the cells high and low, so they intermesh on a turn
Would use dual battery with that setup, so I could use it on cycle. While the other one is in use, the other one is charging. And then switch it back to the charged one so you can recharge the other one.
How small could the array be with pedal assisted as the primary ride?
You can just make an umbrella instead. Dual purpose. Covers. And reduce materials. Less moment of inertia to deal with in the back.
Put a panel on top of each wheel and make the trailer wider and put 4 on the trailer... Could be viable... Cool project
Would.like to see the charge connections.
With some modifications, I think it could work. Maybe with experimenting with putting the panels around the bike and reducing the top speed... also there are new solar panels that use a different element that allows a wider range of light to be converted into energy and I think we are close to a 100% solar bike.
How does it do in the night will it last from dark to light ? Should do it.
I was rolling my eyes a little until he said, "Its completely unpractical to ride." Seriously bro thats a pretty sweet experiment. Im just glad you didn't try to fool anyone by saying this could be any kinda solution. A hybrid version of this would be sweet, though. Downsize it a little and place the panels so you aren't dragging a trailer and you can get a little extra mileage on a sunny day with your ebike! I call it a win!
I always wonder if they can use deflectors to maximize the sun on the panels it seems like it should work
Try a circular globe like configuration with an internal portion that uses 2 mirrors that refract light to the internal globe.😮
Nightmare. Nighttime? Bad weather I’ve snow?
Will it work?
Why not use a single 400w panel?
And it looks SO COOL!
How about slanted vertical panels? Would create drag i guess
Amazing to have balanced power at that speed! I bet there is no batteries which make is circuit so light!
Solar panels currently
What that tells me is that if we can increase the efficiency of solar panels by 5x and have them flexible, then a solar panel covered backpack would effectively provide endless power during daylight
That would be a 100% efficiency, doesn't look feaseble, but hey, people thought that a flying machine was impossible too.
Would a wind generator work in tangin
Why does no one use the rotation of the wheels for charging also?
You'd be spending more energy than creating. You can only do that for breaking as most EVs do with regenerative breaking.
What if you make it bubble shaped behind you?
Breaking down on a cloudy day would be a hell of a call off work.
“Yeah looks like an overcast today, I’ll see you tomorrow”😂Lol
"What do you haul withat trailer?"
"Sunshine, bro."
That's a funny Strayan accent for that road train, I wonder how man roos he's sent hop heaven.
What helmet is that? Where can i get it?
Solar panels are only about 25% efficient at best for typical usage, lab expirements have gotten even higher but if they could one day get to be 50% or higher suddenly solar will become way more practical
Love the way your thinking 👍
Where is the rest of this video
Wouldnt you be able to shorten that some if you had it curve over into a roof and some side mirror maybe
Try it in a A configuration to get more direct sunlight during more daylight hours
How can we cram that up to a smaller size?
How will you catch a lot of sunlight if you don't have size?
Does it have a capacitor
That could be implemented in hibryd trucks. Cover the trailer roof with panels, put an electric motor to help the combustion one when possible like at cruissing speed and reduce the overall gas conssumption.
Trucks are too heavy. You would get a few extra KMs though. If panels get more efficient and lighter and batteries better maybe you could roll one out in the day and travel at night though..
Bro could you just rig up a dynamo to the gear shaft and to your battery like an alternator?
Wouldn't need the rear cessna wing then.
Perpetual motion (work) is impossible. An alternator wired to an electric motor will not work. The closest man has come is the magnificent sail boat and sail plane.
How well does it run in the wintertime when there's not as much sun?
Wonder if you could stack the panels and use some mirrors to pack it smaller.
So what you are saying is to add mirror surface instead of more panel surface?
@ just added mirror surface. Kind of like a solar oven with stacked, but spaced panel surfaces. Maybe go tubular dude 🤙
@@paDdywitha why not add more panel surface instead of mirrors? If you stack anything it will make shadow over the panels.
@ mirrors conquer shadows. Need a smaller footprint is why.
@@paDdywitha if you want to catch light with mirrors you need footprint, same problem as the panels. Power is proportional to the surface exposed to sunlight. Look at commercial solar panel array power plants, nothing is stacked and there are no mirrors.
Snow rain cloudy days looks wonderful
The new solar panel technology they just announced would make this the quart of the size making it completely practical
Could be extremely cost saving if you're like a 4-hour courier that works between 11am and 3pm.
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Use transparent solar panels and layer them
maybe no need for transparency if arranged like window blinds. only noon time won’t be ideal but isn’t it not ideal most of the time anyway?
I saw this guy take a solar panel for like a house he has a 3 wheel bike and he had cardboard all over surrounding himself to keep him warm he also had a small electric motor and the solar panel gave him enough charge to charge his phone or to have a heater running well he rode as well as it ran his little motor enough for him to only have to pedal slowly it was kinda genius for the homeless guy
One in front
One above.
On 45° in back.
And a trunk lid
This would end the energy wars what a great idea good job this could bring peace
You can use the extra 20 watts for an alternator
Stack them and use refractive mirrors to disperse sunlight evenly across all panels. At least you won’t have that convoy of panels trailing
If he stacked one in front, and double up side by side at the back shortening it by 2/3rds , he could make it more rideable
Put tubs on the trailer and put the sola panels on top and you have a practical trailer for traveling long distance to pack it up and go camping???
Jak z parkowaniem obok sklepu?
What are those panels? You can buy a single standard panel that makes 400 watts.
Let's see how it does going the other way up the slight incline.
Nice job. I always wanted to built this.
that's practical and works now made it better
A good battery and a flexable light panel you could roll out and charge during the day. Travel at night. I dont think panels are quite there yet but could be a thing one day soon.
Is there a link to the original post? I think I have a solution..
Cool. Maybe you can try stacking the panels like a canoe carrier?❤
That battery being drained and loaded at the same time is gonna have a field day
Nice, gives me ideas 💡
How long do I need to run a 2000w setup lol ,is that a bus behide you
Imagine if he had twice as efficient panels. They'd take up half the space for the same power output. Making it possibly lighter and more efficient. Will be fun to see what the future holds.
This will be so badass to have with you at all times in your car so if you broke down and take it back down off the bike rack and unfold your solar panels assemble the solar panel chassis and the you're good to go
How is it that you need so many panels to get 270 watts?