The product of an environmentally friendly project for Palestinian engineering students, the car is bedecked with banks of solar panels and doesn’t manage to reach a speed much above 19mph (30kph) – but it is being lauded as a feat of creative engineering in the face of limited funds and scant resources.
“It was a complicated project and our students designed and built everything in this car from scratch,” says Dr Zahdi Salhab, director of the mechanical engineering department at Palestine Polytechnic University in Hebron.
The car, which took several months to design, is equipped with a 2bhp electric engine fed by a battery that stores energy harnessed by roof-mounted reflective solar panels.
Although the region is blessed with abundant sunshine, the car battery can also be charged using mains electricity on cloudy days.
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