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Couple of things to think about:
Wheel motors, unless they're awfully light, add considerably to unsprung weight. There'd be other problems too, if doing a conversion. For instance, what do you do if you get a flat? Whereas if you just bolt on an electric motor where your transmission sits now, things are much simpler.
Solar panels on your car = bad idea, at least until they become about as cheap as paint. Your car's going to spend a lot of time in the shade, or parked/driven at non-optimum orientations to the sun, so you'll get much less than their max potential energy from them. Better to leave the solar cells sitting on your roof at home, pumping out watts whenever they can.
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