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This chapter suggests a method by which the performance of a solar–electric car over a route may be simulated. The motivation for writing such a simulation is to study the battery energy consumed as a function of the speed, the road course, or the parameters of the car.
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See model and references in Craparo and Thacher (1995).
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VM constant and, where GS0 is a reference irradiance. Then.
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A better simulation would be obtained by breaking the array into “thermal pieces” and estimating the temperature of each piece, then combining them. This is a much more complicated task, however.
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Check with the NWS for changes to this and for international weather station locations and data.
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Thacher, E. (2015). Performance Simulation. In: A Solar Car Primer. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17494-5_19
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