Cars and Stuff 5
This sign was about slippery road and one car decided too look closer on it.
Meet an electromobile from St. Petersburg, Russia.
It can go just on sun energy, even when there is not much sun as in Russia in winter time.
This car excercises in defeating gravity while parked.
And Russian police have got also new cars for patrol needs.
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That electric car from St. Petersburg is a hungarian one! It’s name is Puli, produced since the early ’90s as far as I remember.
You are right!
It has been made at Hodmezovasarhely by Hodgep
OMG look at Russian electric car it look like Invalidka
So… let me get it straight. How taking an off-the-shelf electric “car” and combining it with equally off-the-shelf solar panels qualifies as a novel technology, put forth by (as the inscription says) the Renewable Energy Unit of St. Petersburg State University, no less? Looks like a high school science fair project to me, and not a very good one at that.
…and that, regrettably, seems to be representative of the state of the Russian science in general.
LOL at russian prius
hahaha, how far behind the rest of the world are russians?
Not sure how far but forever for sure!
They should’ve made the police car pedaleoperated: guys need to work to move forward… God knows their lardy asses can use some exercise. They look too comfortable now with their pockets full of our bribe-money…
win.
looks like a golf kart to me
For a moment there I thougt the sign said “Speed, should be reasonable”, which with the word endings would have been written for female drivers, how fitting ROFL!!!!
That first one is excellent
hahaha, poor idiot from the pic 1-3
It’s my personal drean that the world cars be replaced with golf carts.
Begin with yourself. I am sure I can find you a slow, clumsy, ugly and uncomfortable golf cart for a low low price of only $99,999*
*Price includes a mandatory donation to Cynical Bastard’s Global Warming Offset Fund (CBGWOF) dedicated to limiting greenhouse gas emissions** and may or may not include the actual vehicle.
**No claim is being made as to whether any money collected by the CBGWOF would actually be used to support the stated activities, whether limiting greenhouse gas emissions would have any positive effects on the environment or the reality of the “global warming”. But, hey, this business model worked for the christian church for 2,000 years now.
No, that golf cart would not go very far under the solar power. To wit:
Incident solar radiation at 40 degrees latitude - about 3.5 MJ x m^-2 x day^-1. On a good day.
Solar panel efficiency record - under 25%; let’s assume generous 10% for a production unit.
Total panel area - under 2 m^2; let’s call it 2 exactly.
On a good day, 0.7 MJ of energy would be harvested; that’s 0.28 kWh (incidentally, not quite enough to burn 3 household light bulbs for one hour).
Assuming a 4 hp (3 kW) motor, that amount of energy would keep it going for 0.1 hour, or about 6 minutes. You’d circle the yard once… maybe. Preved!
From another angle, a kWh of electricity sells for well under $0.20. This thing would harvest about 6 cents worth of energy every day. Assuming that panels were bought at the ridiculously low cost of $500, in real service this installation would pay for itself in only 22 years of perfect weather… except that the solar panels are likely to go to shit after 20 years. Preved again.
Conclusion - the project is the usual Russian style mental masturbation: rephrasing the apt words of Zora Arkus-Duntov, “building a swimming pool just to see if a lead ball would float.”
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First three photoes are from Tomsk
ROFL - I love these pictures.