It's almost a Aptera Car. It can have larger windshield, like Aptera, if solar cells was placed also inside (under windshield area), in the flat place before the steering, wheel where the sun reachs. You can see what I mean if look to aptera from a photo shot from top.
If you drive 35 minutes to work in top speed, and let the car 4 hours on sun, I think you can get back the energy. A car to save the world from petrol
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Originally Posted by redpoint5
Yes, it's very neat as an engineering feat, but not practical or applicable to consumer vehicles. 1800W is only 2.4 horsepower, which might drive that car at 55 MPH under ideal conditions. Even if the car were left in the sun to charge, 1.8 kWh is a very low rate.
Vehicles are among the worst place for solar panels. Much better to put them on a roof and angle them to be efficient.
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