Please rate, comment and subscribe! Many manufacturers are going into production or creating concepts with integrated solar panels in the roof or body of the car. Although under normal use this will not provide all the vehicles power it will make a significant contribution when you factor in the decreasing cost of solar panels and the rising cost of fossil fuel. Here are some examples: Solar Toyota Prius: www.solarelectricalvehicles.com Fisker Karma: www.fiskerautomotive.com Saab 9 X concept: www.saab.com BMW concept with solar roof: www.autobloggreen.com Ford Reflex concept: www.automobilemag.com Giugiaro Quantara concept: www.autoblog.com and many more… The Fisker Karma can already be ordered from the Fisker website – the first ones are scheduled for delivery in 2009. The music theme is called ‘sunshine’. The wattage of the average car roof panel is around 250 watts. If you covered the entire car in solar film or panels you would get around 1000 watts or more.
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You forgot the Zap car, they have a utility truck with a solar roof panel integrated. Unlike the others, it’s affordable at less than $15,000 and can be purchased right now.
By the way solar has a bright future with infrared… nano size antennas can receive infrared radiation with as much as 80% efficiency. And infrared still shines at night.
Solar power for vehicles is ridiculous – thats why plants don’t walk.
@Yavor54: well said
the FIRST CAR LOOKED LIKE A COOL ASS LAMBO…cant belive somebody actually said it looked lame.
The problem is the battery…
But I guess if it becomes massively used, then there MIGHT be an eco-friendly way to build and recycle those too.
your all wrong, in the future, our vehicles will be powered by Chuck Norris.!
worship his third fist!
solar panels convert like 6-12 % potential power. I see lot’s of room for improvement.
@otherworldtrader1, it takes more the the right attitude to create a viable product. You sound like a creationist.
@ndyt that attitude is what got the electric car kille dyears ago, it also is the theme song for big oil
the first one loos like a lame lambo
@ndyt fuck off troll
@edstar83, the first response should have been enough for you, asshole.
@ndyt you need to learn to get your point across without being a asshole.
@edstar83, even if the panels were 100% efficient there still wouldn’t be enough surface area to power a normal car. You need to get educated and stop listening to these retarded conspiracy theories.
@ndyt I wouldn’t say it will always be a gemic. apart from obviously recharging the batteries like you said, I’m pretty sure they have, and have had for a long time way more efficient solar technology supressed from the public. Just as they do rechargable battery technology.
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solar panels on a car will always be a gemic. There is just not enough surface area. Although, I think every car could use it to keep the battery from dieing when you don’t drive a car for a long time. Most cars cant go much more then 2 weeks before the battery dies. Though if the car is inside it wont help :P
Is Solar Power The New Oil?
Yeah like no oil was used to construct this car.
Even if the efficiency of the on-car cells is low they would be a very nice “support” power to charge the battery, even, if not specially, when the car is parked. Grid power is not too portable, but of course trains trams and metro systems are good infastructure.
I agree with you though that battery chemicals is a serious problem.
the petroleum industry receives more subsidies than biofuel, wind, geothermal, and solar combined.
On-car solar power to power a commercially viable vehicle is a ways off yet, say at least 50 years. The efficiency of cells is just too low at the moment.
But large grid tied systems to power electric cars is here, not perfect but here now. Lots of work to be done.
Lithium and other battery chemicals/precious metals will become the new oil. As one resource runs out we will find others and so on …..
John Lennon in a song: no problems, only solutions. A Roman Caesar said this a few thousand years back too. As they vomited their way back from their orgies, so as to rise like a Phoenix to eat yet some more back at their suburbs, they died alot and got stupid from the lead poison in their drinking water pipes, as their hired legions marched back victorious in foreign wars to a greeting by the Huns, Visigoths and Vandals who had awaited in the cities to there slaughter them all real good.
yep, no future in solar, since the oil and mining digging-in-the-dirt-only-is-good corps. have proven this by hundreds of $million$ of PR.
meanwhile they say up is down, freedom is slavery, war is peace, Greenland’s ice cap ain’t melting, the North Pole expeditions will come again soon, father knows best ’cause he sold insurance, as did Beaver’s dad. AIG is the globalization King of the Universe!
or aint’ it. duhhhhhhhhhhwheee…duh duh duh duh, chitty chitty bangarooooo
I saw designs of fusion reactors that look so impressive I wanted to donate money to the company that had it on their site.
And therein lies the magic. Take something that sounds plausible, draw some pretty looking pictures of it, throw in a few snazzy looking equations to fool the layman, and the donations will pour in.
Solar cars are the “new fusion”. The industry can’t turn a profit, and will only last as long as the subsidies from the govt. flow in.
I rated it 1 star because I cant do 0.
Floating solar power can also be the next generation of earning money. And a home/house at the same time .