SunPower-Honda Solar Power Module
date: label: date made
content: 1993
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: In February 1994, this experimental solar module set a record for efficiency by converting nearly a quarter of the sunlight that shone on it into electricity. A team from SunPower Corp., Sandia National Laboratory, and the Electric Power Research Institute were investigating ways to mass produce high-efficiency solar cells. To test their process the team made the cells that Honda used to win the 1993 World Solar Challenge car race. Cells from that production run went into this panel—and it still produces about 26 volts of direct current electricity today.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Work and Industry: Electricity
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content: Energy & Power
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: from EPRI, thru Kurt E. Yeager
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2004.0115.01
label: accession number
content: 2004.0115
label: catalog number
content: 2004.0115.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: photovoltaic device
label: Object Name
content: solar panel
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 36.5 cm x 36.6 cm x 3.5 cm; 14 3/8 in x 14 7/16 in x 1 3/8 in