Sun-driven car prototypes have been around for more than 50 years, but at-scale production of these designs wasn’t available until recently. Now, with major improvements in lithium battery ...

Solar cars exist. The best place to see them is the World Solar Challenge, a race that’s held every two years in Australia. Competitors have to drive about 1,870 miles (3,000 kilometers), from Darwin ...

We talk a lot at SHIFT about materials innovation, especially advancements in battery ingredients, size, and range. Battery electric cars are growing mainstream with firm commitments from OEMs to ...

Solarstic, an in-house venture spun out of Hyundai Motor Group, is showcasing its vehicle-integrated ...

Solar panels on the roofs of existing electric vehicles can extend a car’s range up to 2 miles per day. The dream of solar cars has been around for decades. In recent years, as solar technology has ...

Don’t tell students that a solar-powered car is not in the zeitgeist. Indeed, a group of engineering students from the Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands just completed a 620-mile ...

There is something to be said for a vehicle that gains range just by standing outside in the sun. In the video after the break, [Drew Builds Stuff] demonstrates how he turned a pair of bicycles into a ...

This Korean brand takes photovoltaic cells and incorporates them into the vehicles body and hood, in some cases, generating ...

A solar-powered car made by students in the Netherlands completed a 1,000- kilometer (621-mile) journey through some of the toughest terrain EVs have faced so far, let alone EVs powered by nothing but ...

Driving an electric vehicle powered by solar energy combines the climate and economic benefits of clean energy and clean transportation. “Driving on sunshine” also makes it possible for you to be self ...

is transportation editor with 10+ years of experience who covers EVs, public transportation, and aviation. His work has appeared in The New York Daily News and City & State. EV startup Lightyear ...

Metal trees with a seven-meter canopy of solar panels that generate electricity may soon be coming to car parks and shopping malls in the UK. The structures, which will capture the sun’s energy ...