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A typical tour day is 9 hours, from 9am to 6pm. I will take Psolar from a calculator for solar insolation that I found online from UNM’s website. I’ll use data for the coordinates of Nashville as a constant for solar insolation. Based on this website, the more South-West we move in the states, we should be getting more sunlight throughout the race week. So my Psolar value should be more conservative than what we actually get.
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For Scenario 2 I will consider a 15% grade uphill scenario at 34.2km/h (9.5m/s) with no solar because this seems like a plausible worst case scenario and since it also requires almost ~5000W, which is the maximum power that the motor can take.
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