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A Solar Car PrimerStoring Electric Energy

A Solar Car Primer: Storing Electric Energy [All autonomous cars must use propulsive energy stored in the car. Vehicles using chemical storageChemical storage run on the energy stored in gasoline or other hydrocarbon fuels. Solar energy can be stored in several ways: by sensible storage (heating a mass), by phase change storagePhase change storage (melting a substance), by electrochemical storageElectro-chemical storage or capacitive storageCapacitive storage (conversion to electric energy and storage in a battery of capacitor, respectively), or by flywheel inertial storageFlywheel inertial storage (converting electric energy to rotational kinetic energyRotational kinetic energyKinetic energy and storing it in a spinning flywheel). Note that inertial storage is intrinsic to all vehicles because each stores kinetic energy in its own mass and the rotating masses of its wheels and drive.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Solar Car PrimerStoring Electric Energy

Thacher, Eric Forsta
Springer Journals — Jul 3, 2015
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Springer International Publishing
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© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015
ISBN
978-3-319-17493-8
Pages
81 –98
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-17494-5_4
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Abstract

[All autonomous cars must use propulsive energy stored in the car. Vehicles using chemical storageChemical storage run on the energy stored in gasoline or other hydrocarbon fuels. Solar energy can be stored in several ways: by sensible storage (heating a mass), by phase change storagePhase change storage (melting a substance), by electrochemical storageElectro-chemical storage or capacitive storageCapacitive storage (conversion to electric energy and storage in a battery of capacitor, respectively), or by flywheel inertial storageFlywheel inertial storage (converting electric energy to rotational kinetic energyRotational kinetic energyKinetic energy and storing it in a spinning flywheel). Note that inertial storage is intrinsic to all vehicles because each stores kinetic energy in its own mass and the rotating masses of its wheels and drive.]

Published: Jul 3, 2015

Keywords: Rolling Resistance; Solar Array; Terminal Voltage; Storage Efficiency; Lead Dioxide

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