Good for these engineering students, using the little resources they have to create this vehicle.

I thought,if they place the solar panels about 1,5 meter or so, higher, the place beneath can be used for seats, and material,
bringing around packages etc.

It resembles small solar-cars driving around on golf-sport resorts.
I think it is a start to congratulate for, and support.

So if you have a minute, this one’s not a bad read 🙂

You may know “The solar cooking archive” and the ‘Villager sun oven’
(1200 meals a day), and 30.000 meals by solar energy in India by the use of Scheffler mirrors on the roof of a temple. The remaining
energy is sold as green energy. You can find more about Scheffler mirrors at Solare Bruecke. How to build a mirror you can see in the
manual for a 2.7 m3 mirror at Solare Bruecke. Maybe you can
replace the pieces of mirror by a reflecting foil, called Reflectec.
Maybe even paint is possible (X20 paint reflects solar radiation.
About 90 %. Can be used to cool houses)
Look for the work by Jürgen Kleinwächter. He developed a solar pump
working at about 100 degrees C, and a Stirling motor working
at low temperature (220 C)(normal 6-800 degrees). With 2 m3 hot vegetable oil you can work 2 days. See Tamera healing biotope,
Portugal. And other places at the web. Probably you can generate
electricity with it.
A free magazine ‘Mother earth news’ writes about healthy, small
scale, alternative living. E.g. it wrote about a solar pond
(in the Dead Sea. 150 KW.) and thought about small scale examples.

You may know that for Stirling motors you do not need fuel.
Several solar energy devices work with Stirling motors.
The heat is enough to move the piston. They probably are not cheap.
And not easy to make. Look at Youtube solar stirling.
And Youtube making solar panels (1/5 th of the costs)

In the Netherlands the ECN is working on cooling by solar warmth.
You can ask me if you want to know more.

Somewhere I found a chinese instrument, looking as a solar
cooking instrument, that can be used to connect pieces of iron
(weld), where the reflected sunbeams are concentrated
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[ A young man from Palestine, living in the Netherlands, asked me whether someone wanted to buy remains of olive-oil-production to burn for energy. My answer was that, if the kernel is not in it, and it is clean, you can better use it for food, for people and animals – as a paste with solarflower oil and citric acid]
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Friendly greetings

Ad Christiaensen