An EV will be taken 15,000 km around Australia to test printed solar. Printed solar has been in development at the University of Newcastle for 27 years and could someday be added into the body of an electric vehicle
An EV has began its journey in Newcastle on Friday to start an ambitious trek around Australia. The EV is using paper-thin, printed solar panels to help power it along the road.
Stuart McBain will undergo the historic campaign, Charge Around Australia, to champion electric vehicle usage, while at the same time providing one of the most painstaking test to date for the advanced solar cells, developed at the University of Newcastle, Australia.
The accounting professional from Liverpool in the UK has traded the cloud-covered cold climate of home for the shining hot outback, as he sets off from Newcastle for a lap of Australia.
Inside his EV are rolls of printed solar and these will be used to assist power the vehicle on its 15 000 km trip.
And the main problems for printed organic photovoltaics are definitely effectiveness as well as resilience, the Charge Around Australia project notes. It states substantial economic modelling has discovered that with only moderate device efficiency as well as lifetimes, large area oriented solar energy tech is able to compete with coal generated energy.
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