HOVER-CARS FINAL PROPOSAL
Who will buy it, how do you know?
People or families with lots of money will buy our hover-car. It’s very expensive considering the parts used to make it. (i.e. metals and magnets and various other materials.) We also have to put metal all along the roads if we mass product our product, or else the cars will not be able to fly. We can lessen the cost by making it in places such as China, but they will still be more expensive than ground cars.
Invention Description
Our project is a vehicle that you can steer and drive like a normal car, but it runs on a magnetic field. It levitates off of magnets on the bottom, back, and front of the car, and magnets on the floor as well. It cannot hover without magnets. It will also be pretty heavy compared to a normal car.
How Much Does the Car Cost?
The car costs about 125,000 dollars depending on what materials and kind of magnets are used to make it.
Space Magnetics, Retrieved From: http://www.spacemagnetics.com/home/hovercraft/faq_hovercraft.html (2004)
This article gave us the idea of having magnets on the car. There could be 2 different poles both inside the car, but a better way would be to have magnets on the bottom of the car and the floor. This article also tells us that the car functions off of a magnetic field.
This article tells us that we should put magnets on all the roads so it will allow the hover-car to fly as long as it’s on the road.
Bill Beaty, 2005 Retrieved From: http://amasci.com/maglev/train.html
This article gives us the information of how to allow the car to hover without having it slipping and sliding off the track. You have to have 2 long magnets on the board and on the track, because if it was just one long magnet the car could fall. The magnets on the road have the match the magnets on the car.
Dennis R. Jenkins, Tony Landis, Jay Miller, 2003, American X-Vehicles, Retrieved From: http://history.nasa.gov/monograph31.pdf
This told us that the weight of the car depends on what materials you use to make it, the density of those materials, and how much the car can elevate.
This short article gave us a price range of the car we would build. It costs about 125,000 dollars, which is pretty pricy.
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