While electricity can be cheaper than gas, it certainly isn't free, but charging a car with its own integrated solar panels ...

Electric vehicles are gaining popularity, but challenges like charging time and accessibility, especially in urban areas, ...

Electric vehicles are known for plugging in – but one startup wants them to simply soak up the sun instead. Bako Motors is building compact electric cars and cargo vans with solar panels on the roof, ...

Aptera is slowly but surely moving toward its goal of making a usable solar-powered electric car. After years of delays and ...

Some 20 years after it was first founded, San Diego, California-based startup Aptera has taken its solar-powered electric vehicle (EV) out on a proper 300-mile (~480-km) road trip – the first time ...

I recently came across a September 18 article by the “future technology” editor at The Wall Street Journal, “Solar-Powered Cars and Trucks Are Almost Here” (sorry, behind paywall, but your local ...

Aptera Motors arrives at this year’s Consumer Electroncis Show in Las Vegas with a production-ready version of its solar electric vehicle (sEV). The company’s goal is to redefine mobility and deliver ...

CES is usually a great time for companies to show off things they are working on. This includes products that will actually make it to the market and products that are futuristic concepts. At CES 2025 ...

In terms of sustainability and environmental friendliness, hybrids and electric cars are good. But cars powered at least partly by the sun? That’s even better. Here are two steps in that direction.

The group is creating its own solar-powered race car from scratch, a task that takes three years. But they will be ready to compete soon. Three years. That is how long the Michigan State Solar Racing ...

The Somerset Solar Jumpers are putting their engineering skills to good use. Students at Somerset High School are putting engineering skills to good use by building their own solar-powered car. The ...