Can you imagine what it means to study a product for 29 consecutive years? Since 1988, successive generations of students at the University of Waterloo in Canada have been committed to creating a sustainable mode of transportation. what does it look like?
This is the new Midnight Sun solar car. A total of 11 vehicles have been built over the past 29 years, and now they are preparing to update the twelfth generation product Midnight Sun XII.
Before that, let's take a look at their most famous tenth generation solar car:
It is a three-wheeled solar car that cannot drive only one person. Designed for aluminum:
The eleventh generation product was presented at the U.S. Solar Challenge 2016:
▲The eleventh generation solar car Midnight Sun XI
The current twelfth generation The product is still in the design and testing phase, and there is very littleinformation. Only rough details have been announced.
Midnight Sun XII adopts a composite aerodynamic body as a whole. The body will use high-performance solar cells to use sunlight to create electricity. The car will have 326 solar cells and a built-in 16 KWh lithium battery. , which can produce about 400 km of travel.
And the twelfth generation solar vehicle is expected to participate in the 2018 US Solar Challenge, attracting solar fleets from around the world.
Next year will be the 30th anniversary of the Midnight Sun car. It doesn't matter if this car can be successfully crowdfunded, but with this kind of perseverance from generation to generation, Geeks would like to give it a boost!
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Midnight Sun XII is currently raising crowdfunding funds on Kickstarter with 3D printed models and clothing in Dcompensates. Crowdfunding funds start from CA$10. Currently, he has received support from 134 people and. a total of 774.90 RMB was collected. The objective achievement rate is 150%.
▲Crowdfunding since launch