The New Floating Car!
Posted on May 12, 2009 by admin Under Cars · 4 Comments
Can you imagine a car floating on water? Probably, you might have seen them in some action movies or in James Bond movies. This real life car is a hydro-car which could be useful during heavy flood areas or in navigating urban waterways. To make your car to float through the water, there must be some sort of propeller hidden under the chassis. Moreover, the basic and immediate requirement for your car is, it must be able to float in water.
Now, you will be thinking that your Toyota or Chevrolet is going to sink when flung in to the body of the water. In order to gain some important insights to this issue, a quick calculation of Archimedes principles is followed. According to Archimedes principle, it states that the famous principle that the buoyant force which is acting on the body is equal to the weight of the volume fluid displayed. The upward buoyant force should balance the download force of the weighting object’s weight.
Some approximations: consider the model of body of the car as rectangular with its following dimensions, 12 feet length, 5 feet width and 2 feet height (ignoring tires and up to the bottom). Now, this gives 120 cubic feet or 3.4 cubic meters in volume. Also assume the water is not needed to get up to the level of the windows. For the safer side, the car should float with a maximum of 50 percent 1.7 cubic meters of the body submerged.
Now if you think about it, you will notice that the volume of the submerged part of the car is perfectly equal to the volume of water to which it displaces. The weight of the displaced water can be calculated by the formula: W=mg=DVg,
Here, m is the mass of the displaced water which is equal to the density D (1000kg/cubic meter), multiplied by the volume V (1.7 cubic meter). Now, g stands for the acceleration due to the gravity (9.8 meter/ square s). Hence, when plugging to the numbers, the value of W equals to 16,700 N or 3800lb. This value is the buoyant force which is acting on the half submerged floating car and also it must be equal to its weight.
From the above calculation, it is said that 3800 pounds of weight is pretty too much heavy for the car for the float purpose in the water, especially for the compact dimensions which is quoted above. As per the calculation, most of the normal cars with the normal weight should really float in the water quite very easily.
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NEW FOR THE PUBLIC, IF ITS FOR SALE, BUT FIRE CHIEF’S TRUCKS AND OTHER AUTHORATIES HAS VEHICLES, BUT ONLY IN 4 WHEEL SUV TRUCKS THAT ARE MADE TO FLOAT, I’VE EVEN SEEN A SMALL PROPELLER ON ONE OF THEM. HAVE A NICE DAY. MIKE
Read about it loon time ago. ALso read about flying car, when is it gonna really come to the market, and even if so, be affordable?
HOW MUCH IS THE NOW FLOATING CAR WHERE CAN I GET ONE.
I think this is a great idea. Especially for those who need a car, want a boat, but don’t also want a tru just to pull it. Not to mention it’s cool.