Does it elevate somehow? It doesn’t look like it has the ground clearance for actual off roading.
“Off road” but the car only stayed on undeveloped roads rather than actually going off the fucking road.
undeveloped roads rather than actually going off the fucking road.
I’ve driven on some “undeveloped” roads that were worse than actual off-roading.
The tech sounds cool, but that design style is absolutely tragic.
We’ll, the fastback and the fairings on the rear wheels makes sense for aerodynamics, but I have no idea what’s going on at the front.
Prettier than the cybertruck to be honest.
It’s giving off some serious Pontiac Aztec vibes
It’s like if the Aztec and the Cybertruck had an ugly baby.
It’s neat to see solar technology go this far. Was there a support team?
A great positive is that it is a very light weight vehicle. The approach angle looks good. It’s cool how it pops open to supposedly live in but I wonder what the interior is actually like. I can’t imagine it is carrying much living supplies, water, etc as it’s a very light vehicle.
Some negatives include terrible ground clearance and a horrendous departure angle. I can’t imagine the break over angle is very good considering the low ground clearance. It also has small tire sidewalls so they couldn’t have aired down much.
All in all, not a serious off road vehicle. I would argue it’s as much of an off road vehicle as a Prius is with a roof top tent on it. It’s just meant to cruise fire roads.
This bit of news made the rounds late October. It’s cool but they go to lengths to, IMO, misrepresent the achievement. It took them 1.5 weeks to do this. It has a great big battery but they give the impression that you can drive more or less continuously from solar alone. No mention in any of the many articles you can read on this (they must all be sourced from the same press release or similar) about charging rates to charge the whole battery. The best you can see is on some of the articles they say cloud cover could impact range by 50km. At what sort of speeds that is based on is up to anyone’s guess.
This article is missing some stuff I’d really like to know. How long did this 1,000 km trip take? How often did they have to stop? What was the average range per day? All of the specs that would be great to know are missing here.
