As we've seen with Toyota's Prius Prime, putting a solar panel on a car's roof is a nifty idea but can only gain you a few free miles a day due to the limited size. With a new prototype of its ...

The public relations enthusiasm comes around yet again for these vehicles, as it does for flying cars, but how realistic is ...

Nissan has revealed a solar-charging roof for its best-selling Sakura EV, which promises to add up to 1,860 miles of free ...

Electric vehicles are known for plugging in – but one startup wants them to simply soak up the sun instead. Bako Motors is ...

Solar cars exist. The best place to see them is the World Solar Challenge, a race that’s held every two years in Australia. Competitors have to drive about 1,870 miles (3,000 kilometers), from Darwin ...

A couple of weeks ago we heard about plans for a solar-assisted Toyota [NYSE:TM] Prius, and now it seems Nissan [NASDAQ:NSANY] is jumping on the solar bandwagon as well. Reports about the Prius ...

Once again, we see great buzz around the idea of an electric car with a solar panel on it, in this case a new Hyundai Sonata (not yet available in the USA.) Sadly, it is necessary to point out the ...

Putting solar panels on an electric car so that you don’t have to plug it in to charge it might sound like a good idea. But the amount of sunlight that hits the surface of a car isn’t enough to ...

Back at the Detroit auto show, our own David Thomas was impressed by the Toyota A-Bat’s conceptual use of solar panels in the dash. The idea, as Toyota explained it, was to eventually use the solar ...

Installation of solar panels designed to reduce a hospital trust's carbon emissions has been disrupting patient parking.

Aptera is a name many likely don't know, but if you do, you know the vehicle projects associated with the startup come with big ol' grains of salt. And if you thought Aptera was dead and gone, that's ...

Solar cars exist. The best place to see them is the World Solar Challenge, a race that’s held every two years in Australia. Competitors have to drive about 1,870 miles (3,000 kilometers), from Darwin ...