Decrease in Running Energy of Solar Car by Low Rolling Resistance Tires and Drivers

• TAKAMATO Keiji

  Department of Prime Mover Engineering

• KIMURA Hideki

  Department of Electronics

• HOSHINO Hiroshi

  Department of Electric Engineering

• MATSUMAE Yoshiaki

  Research Institute of Science and Technology

• HIRAOKA Katsumi

  Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics

• UCHIDA Hirohisa

  Department of Applied Physics

• KAMACHI Mitsuhisa

  Research Promotion Department

• TAGUCHI Hideo

  Research Planing and Cordinate Division

抄録

To reduce pollutant emission and fuel consumption of automotive engines is one of the major concerns to be solved urgently, and several alternative propulsion systems such as hybrid systems, electric motors and fuel cells are being developed. As one of the options in the future systems, we have been developing since 1991 a solar car which is clean and ecological. In this study the performance of the rolling resistance of tires developed for the car was analyzed using data obtained in the 1998 world solar car rally. The result showed that the rolling resistance coefficient of new tire is lower that the former ones and that the running power of the car depends on the skill of the driver.

収録刊行物

• Proceedings of the School of Engineering of Tokai University

  Proceedings of the School of Engineering of Tokai University 25 72-, 2000

  東海大学

キーワード

• Solar car
• Rolling resistance coefficient
• Driver effect
• Clean energy
• Global warming

詳細情報

• CRID: 1573668926596698240
• NII論文ID: 110000031194
• NII書誌ID: AA11060702
• ISSN: 03880788
• 本文言語コード: en
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