Wind-Powered Car
By Ben on Wed Feb 16 2011
WindPowered Car

WindPowered Car

WindPowered Car
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Television host Dirk Gion and engineer Stefan Simmerer recently completed a 5,000 km (3,107 mile) journey across Australia-  titled The Wind Explorer,a lightweight electric vehicle powered only by electricity-generating wind turbine and a kite, and broke three world records in the process. To keep the electric Wind Explorer running, it could be recharged overnight using a porable 20-foot wind turbine (it can also be plugged in in the absence of wind). They could also deploy a kite if the breeze was strong enough, and use it to pull the vehicle along, it worked like parasailing.
The 18-day road trip gave way to three world records for the Germans. one for crossing a continent with a wind-powered vehicle for the first time, another for traveling the farthest in a wind-powered car over a 36 hour period, and a final one for the most distance ever covered by a wind-powered land vehicle. Check out the video above!
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#1 Post by David, on Wed Feb 16 2011 6:16 PM
Meh. I'll stick to the more practicle and reliable gasoline based engine.
#2 Post by Ryan, on Wed Feb 16 2011 10:35 PM
Overhead power lines for the loss.
#3 Post by joe, on Wed Feb 16 2011 11:30 PM
and traffic lights
#4 Post by joe, on Thu Feb 17 2011 12:33 AM
ok, now these germans want to start building windcars? i`m excited to see the first mercedes with a kite on the autobahn;)
#5 Post by Janais, on Wed Jul 13 2011 1:7 AM
Whoever wrote this, you know how to make a good atircle.
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