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The wind with a wind is a type of vehicle that is driven by wind energy either directly or by means of an electricity made of wind energy. Although the idea of wind -powered vehicles dates back to centuries, the technology has only fulfilled this dream in recent years. Since most wind -powered cars are forbidden on normal roads and highways, they are much less practical for transport purposes. However, wind energy can be used to power electric vehicles.
Inventors and entrepreneurs have long tried to drive vehicles using free and abundant wind energy. At the beginning of the 17th century, a Flemish engineer named Simon Stevin built a wooden carriage, which was powered by large sails, and used it to entertain the royal rank along the sandy European beaches. Strush plains of the Midwestern US inspired attempts at wind cars, some of which have become a local folklore. H.M. Is reportedly built by Fletcher from PlainView, Texas30 miles (48 km) in 1910. Modern land yachts lookAs a sailboat with wheels and participates in racing competitions organized around the world. Advanced land yachts can travel about three times faster than wind speed.
Recently it is for speed and contains more efficient shape came on the scene another type of car with wind. In 2009, a British -powered -called Greenbird vehicle set a world record of 126.2 mph (203 km/h). Greenbird borrows technology from the aviation industry, with a large vertical tarpaulin similar to the wing of the aircraft. Two years earlier, a group of German students built a wind car using parts of mountain bikes, a lightweight body of carbon fibers and a large rotor that captured wind energy and powered VehikulclCle's Wheels. These types of cars can travel directly against the wind direction or at an angle.
different internet forums was home to a long -term debate on whether an automobile car could be built to makeIt traveled on the wind faster than the wind speed itself. In July 2010, this performance successfully carried out a vehicle called Blackbird and apparently ended the debate. Using the type of feedback between the wheels driven by the wind and the large support that supplied the thrust, Blackbird reached a speed of 2.8 times faster than wind speed.
In this category, an electric car can also be considered if electricity is generated by wind energy. Stationary wind turbines can be used to charge the vehicle batteries without causing contamination. At least one city in the US has a charging station driven by wind. Some of the concepts of electric cars have been optimized for this type of operation, and several of them even say that it offers a device that can be a wind strength, as the car is driven.