Solar-powered cars aren’t new. The real challenge isn’t harnessing sunlight – well, the source is quite abundant – but doing it without making the car look like a science project. Most solar panels ...

A handful of startups will soon sell technologies that can power a substantial portion of a driver’s daily mileage with nothing but abundant, free sunlight. Aptera Motors needed automotive-grade solar ...

Solar power is abundant and readily available, so why don't cars use it? With electric cars becoming more popular and a shift ...

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 ...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (KGO) -- A group of Mountain View High School students are hard at work building their very own solar-powered car. It's all by hand and from scratch - some of the students are ...

The Aptera, a solar powered car, is getting closer and closer to hitting the road in California. It’s a first-of-its-kind vehicle and it already has 50,000 orders ...

A self-charging Nissan Ariya concept has just been unveiled in the United Kingdom, with the in-built solar system capable of delivering up to 23km of range per day in ideal conditions.

Solar-powered charging could make electric vehicles affordable and practical across Africa sooner than many experts expected.

The car, designed and built by Detroit high school students, runs on solar powered batteries. On a cool and cloudy summer day, Michigan high school students drove the car they’d been engineering for ...

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 ...

DartSolar’s aftermarket rooftop-mounted solar panels can add up to 20 miles of range a day to some EVs. VIDEO: DartSolar A handful of startups will soon sell technologies that can power a substantial ...