Students build a car powered with solar energy

The students from Zielona Góra University created a superb cost-effective car powered with solar energy. Now they are facing the most difficult part of the project: try to register the untypical car. Everything started a year and a half ago when to the doctor Grzegorz Bensyka from the Institute of Electronic Engineering came the 4th year students of electro-technique and proposed to create a science programme. Students without hasitation engaged in the project of Eco-car. The only problem was money, quite big actually, because they needed 45 thousand zloty. Luckily, they found sponsorship really fast (Ecoenergy Centre, Hot-generating plant Zielona Góra, UESA Poland, electronic warehouse Half-Electro). Now it was just enough to buy a car and get the project off the ground. They bought 17 years old Volkswagen. Thay created the energy-sufficient car of the future, which has not been in Poland so far. The car is almost completely powered with solar energy and entirely adjusted to the road traffic. Although it requires supercharging from the socket, the cost is incommensurable to the profit. They calculated that by charging they use electricity only for 3 zloty (more or less 1Euro!) and they drive for 100 km. So we may say that the car is driving for free. It accelerates to 85 km/h and with average speed of 50km/h it can drive even for 170 km.