What is a Wind Powered Car?

A wind-powered car means that the car can drive automatically according to the direction of the wind. The driver can also manually adjust the "sail" at the rear of the car through a special configuration in the cockpit, thereby changing the direction of the vehicle. Mainly uses lithium batteries as energy.

Wind car, a German-made "Blast Explorer" wind car successfully crossed the vast

The car is mainly driven by wind and kite, this car-like style

Its main power comes from lithium batteries, which are charged at night by portable wind turbines, but sometimes kites similar to drag umbrellas are used.

Due to intermittent winds, Gion and Simmel sometimes had to charge lithium batteries at campsites or laundromats. According to statistics, they traveled 2414 kilometers by wind, 482 kilometers by kite, and 2,092 kilometers by battery power.

The entire journey costs just 10 for charging the battery

Wind car American invention

1. The American inventor K Cavallaro and his colleagues built a unique wind-powered car that was even faster than the wind when it was downwind.

2. This unusual wind-powered car can reach 2.86 times the wind speed in the downwind test. This puzzling car design has caused a sensation in Internet forums and universities. The design concept is derived from the "DWFTTW model", that is, "DownWindFasterThanTheWind" (the wind runs faster than the wind).

3. Cavalaro was sponsored by Google and Joey Energy. He built the wind car in the Department of Aeronautics at the University of St. George. The ultra-light car uses 3 wheel drive with a 5 meter high wind propeller It is mainly made of foam material and simulates the aerodynamic design of Formula 1. The propeller thruster is a key design to make the car exceed the wind speed in the downwind state. The speed of the car reaches 2.86 times the wind speed, which is equivalent to 62 km / h.

Wind car British invention

A British engineer Richard Jenkins' "Green Bird" wind car is the fastest wind car in the world. With a wind speed of only 48.2 kilometers per hour, it set a world record of 202.9 kilometers per hour.

Unlike traditional sail cars, Green Bird uses a steel drive wing. This driving wing is capable of generating upward lifting power in the same manner as the wing. The entire wind turbine is almost entirely made of carbon composite materials, and the only metal parts are the bearings of the wings and wheels. According to Jenkins, this aerodynamic design and lighter weight allow the "Green Bird" to easily reach 3 to 5 times the wind speed.

"Green Bird" is the fifth work by Jenkins to realize his dream, and its body looks particularly slender. Jenkins has been experimenting with this kind of wind car, hoping that his work will continue to set records. Its wind turbines were tested in the United Kingdom, Canada, the United States and Australia to find suitable climate conditions. To wait for an ideal experimental environment, Jenkins and his wind car had been waiting in Australia for seven weeks.

German wind car invention

Although the American inventor K Cavalaro thought that the sail design was bad for the car, BMW Germany thought that the sail could make the car green and interesting, so it launched a wind-powered sail car called "blue power". The car can drive automatically according to the direction of the wind, and the driver can also manually adjust the "sail" at the rear of the car through a special configuration in the cockpit, thereby changing the direction of the car.

This environmentally friendly concept car is a three-wheeled vehicle. The two wheels at the rear extend to both ends. The top of the cockpit is equipped with a sail design similar to a sailboat. The driver enters the cockpit through a front windshield that can be raised. The car's cockpit is equipped with an anemometer and a speedometer, and its maximum speed can also exceed 200 kilometers per hour. As the sail design of the car is greatly affected by wind direction and wind speed, the car's entertainment function is greater than the practical function, and is mainly used for drag racing in the desert ^[1] .