Electric Cars In Every Garage, With Solar Panels

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2024 12:43:37 +0000

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.

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U-M Solar Car Team Returns To The American Solar Challenge

Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2024 13:22:25 +0000

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]

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Toyota Invests In Perovskite Solar Cells, And The World Will Never Be The Same

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2024 18:26:54 +0000

The solar car of the future is already emerging, and Toyota could get a jump on the ball with new perovskite solar cells.

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Army Of Pickup Trucks To Ding Diesel And Gas With New Solar Panels

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2024 15:11:52 +0000

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.

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Tesla Model Y Powered By Solar Panels On Its Roof — Smart Move?

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2024 18:49:19 +0000

An intrepid DIY Tesla Model Y owner has done what many dream of doing — directly powered his Tesla with … [continued]

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EVs & Solar

Credit to Author: Stuart Ungar| Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2022 23:23:14 +0000

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 and it’s no wonder about […]

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6 Minutes to Spare as Sunswift 7 Solar Car Sets Provisional World Record!

Credit to Author: David Waterworth| Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2022 21:24:56 +0000

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 at the Australian Automotive Research […]

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Sustainable Electric Car That Cleans The Air While Driving — Zem

Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2022 03:26:33 +0000

TU Eindhoven students develop passenger car that captures more CO₂ than it emits while driving TU Eindhoven student team TU/ecomotive has developed a sustainable electric passenger car that captures more carbon dioxide (CO₂) than it emits while driving. It is a prototype, called Zem, that purifies the air through a special filter. By storing the captured CO₂ […]

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