The main handicap of the electric cars It is your autonomy. Manufacturers are working on several different fronts to reduce it. Mercedes-Benz is already preparing a revolutionary solar paint that generates electricity. It will allow you to travel up to 20,000 kilometers for free per year by electric car.
All the specifications that Mercedes-Benz has revealed about this solar paint are spectacular. It’s only 50 micrometers thick, and only adds 50 grams of weight per square meter, so it’s very light.
Its energy efficiency is 20%, that is, converts 20% of the sunlight it receives into electricity. It is a fairly high value.
The solar paint that adds 20,000 kilometers of autonomy per year
This photovoltaic painting allows to place on top a colored layer of paint with nanoparticlesso the car can have any color you want. This layer of nanoparticles allows 94% of solar energy to pass through.
Mercedes-Benz has done the calculations, and with the sun in the city of Stuttgart, Germany, the paint covers 62% of the average distance of 52 kilometers per day traveled by an electric car. That is to say, offers 12,000 free kilometers a year with the solar energy that captures paint in Germany.
In sunnier cities, like Beijing, it would reach 14,000 kilometers per year. and in Los Angelesa sunny city comparable to the Andalusian cities, would cover 100% of the average daily distance of 52 kilometers, about 20,000 kilometers per year. You can see it in the opening video of the news.
What Mercedes-Benz is announcing is a utopia: free circulation with the car, as long as there is sun.
The advantages don’t end here. The paint contains no rare earth materials, no silicone, and is made with cheap, non-toxic and easy to recycle ingredients.
This solar paint converts the solar energy that hits the car into electricity that stored in the battery, or injected directly into the electric motorwhen the car is running.
Even through reverse charging, it can be sold to the electrical grid and earn money while the car is parked in the garden, or on the street.
The German firm has not revealed the formula, it is top secret, nor when there will be a commercial version. Experts believe that it uses perovskitea compound that fits these properties.
However, perovskite wears away quickly with water or the sun’s ultraviolet rays. If this is the case, Mercedes-Benz should be working on some method to improve its resistance. Perhaps that layer of nanoparticles that is placed on top of the solar paint acts as a protective layer.
If this data becomes reality, and Mercedes-Benz photovoltaic paint offers up to 20,000 free kilometers per year in sunny areasfor many urban drivers that would mean reaching utopia: drive free all your life. We will see if the German brand really gets a commercial version of this revolutionary paint for electric cars.
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