Are Solar Vehicles Becoming Viable?

Clean Technica: Recently, Toyota announced a special research and development project. With Sharp and the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO), it has put a special test vehicle together that uses solar panels to generate almost 1 kW of energy during daylight hours, whether the vehicle is driving or sitting.

Rather than doing a quick regurgitation of Toyota’s press release, I wanted to provide some more context to explain why this is important, what the limitations are (for now), and where direct-mount solar EVs are headed.

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