Please, please, please let it be true. I know it is getting very close to feasible. Can you imagine the financial and political repercussions? It would be catastrophic for some but incredible for others. It would immediately put an end to any environmental concerns, with some mild new concerns. Transit industries would be in free fall. Inter-continental tourism would sky rocket. Peace in the Middle East would become irrelevant. On and on and on. Get back to work Tesla / SpaceX employees!
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A Pinterest employee I can understand, but fuzzypuppy you work at freakin' Google and you don't know how to use it? http://spectrum.ieee.org/cars-that-think/transportation/efficiency/solar-powered-family-car-generates-more-energy-than-it-uses https://techcrunch.com/2014/09/24/the-first-four-seater-solar-powered-vehicle-hits-the-u-s-road/ I don't know if this the vehicle but I saw a program a couple years about about a solar powered 4 seater that could sustain itself at like 30 MPH. It was stripped down to essentially be a shell and wheels but imagine the funding that would go into the company that could get a mass market car that had any kind of driverless tech and self sustaining even at 35. This vehicle seats 4, top end is 125 MPH, on a normal day at average speeds is can travel up 300 KM if it is sunny.
I stand corrected. Still, I don't see it becoming common technology. It still will never be comparable to the reliability of Tesla engines and people will HATE the aesthetic. People hardly enjoy the look of solar panels on their roof. No one's buying a solar-panel-box with wheels, no way.
But does it _need_ to be 100% solar powered for solar to be useful? Even if it just cuts down the juice it sucks from the wall a certain percentage (depending on how sunny it is on a given day) the possible financial and ecological savings are great. In the same way that houses with solar panels are still hooked up to the grid, so would your car be.
This won't happen. Rather there will be solar powered battery charging plants or even stations.
Why must it be either or? Why not both?
Because panels are expensive and don't provide enough through put to be effective enough as a mobile charge. I guess if you park in the sun all day it could be useful but there is limited surface area on a car and a part of the car will inevitably be shaded depending on the angle.
My coworker had a car with a solar panel on the roof, forgot the model. Said that it did absolutely nothing, maybe kept his battery from dying only
I charge my car with solar panels at my house :)
Its not to bring solar to Tesla, it's to bring batteries to solar. They need to store your excess solar panel juice because solar panel users are flooding the market for selling back electricity to the grid.
Solar City + Tesla + SpaceX = Solar Powered Self Driving Rocket to Mars.
Ha..no.
You mean like 30 horse powered car that crawls up hills? Might need to flip of air conditioning to go on freeways...?
lol you're optimistic