One Step Closer To The Electric Solar Car Of The Future…Er, Solar Autocycle, That Is
The new solar car from the US EV startup Aptera is on track for production, with a display screen from the leading flat panel manufacturer Tianma.
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Three-Wheeled Electric Vehicles Are Coming For Your Fossil Fuels
The US startup Aptera deploys embedded solar panels to raise the bar on autocycles in the electric vehicle market.
Electric Cars In Every Garage, With Solar Panels
The idea of putting solar panels on electric cars is gaining more traction, both as a charging convenience and as a contribution to grid reliability and resilience.
U-M Solar Car Team Returns To The American Solar Challenge
For the first time since 2018, the University of Michigan solar car team will stake their claim as one of the nation’s best Sporting a brand new roll cage, the University of Michigan solar car team’s latest vehicle will speed down parts of the Oregon Trail and seven other national historic … [continued]
Toyota Invests In Perovskite Solar Cells, And The World Will Never Be The Same
The solar car of the future is already emerging, and Toyota could get a jump on the ball with new perovskite solar cells.
Army Of Pickup Trucks To Ding Diesel And Gas With New Solar Panels
The Canadian firm Worksport is on track to send solar panels flying onto millions of pickup trucks, electric or not, in the form of tonneau covers.
Tesla Model Y Powered By Solar Panels On Its Roof — Smart Move?
An intrepid DIY Tesla Model Y owner has done what many dream of doing — directly powered his Tesla with solar panels. That’s right, not happy with simply powering his car with house rooftop solar panels, he’s doing it with a solar panel array on the roof of his crossover. … [continued]
The Race For Humanity’s Future: Solar-Powered World Records
While looking something up for another article, I fell into a very interesting rabbit hole: the Guinness World Records website. If you’re old enough to remember a time when there wasn’t an internet connection in every home and classroom (and almost every pocket), you probably remember finding a copy of … [continued]
EVs & Solar
EVs and solar panels go together like peanut butter and jelly. One thing I’ve noticed in the eight years since starting Evolve KY, Kentucky’s non-profit electric vehicle group, is that typically those with EVs want rooftop solar and those with solar want an EV. So you put those two together … [continued]
6 Minutes to Spare as Sunswift 7 Solar Car Sets Provisional World Record!
Sydney’s University of New South Wales Sunswift 7 solar-powered electric car has claimed a provisional Guinness World Record by going 1000 km (620 miles) on a single charge in under 12 hours. The car, designed and built by students, posted a time of 11 hours 53.32 minutes for the distance … [continued]
