But the rollback of clean energy tax credits will also aid the fossil-fuel industry. Fewer electric cars on the road mean ...

A passionate YouTuber, challenging conventional limitations of electric vehicles, has developed a solar-powered electric car ...

In 1955, a General Motors employee invented the first model solar-powered car, a tiny 15-inch vehicle. In the preceding 65 years, nobody in the industry has managed to turn that model into a full ...

Porsche, in particular, is working on the technology, and it already has a synthetic gasoline factory in South America. Fuel ...

Electreck Formula Sun Grand Prix is back in action this year. The three-day competition features colleges and universities ...

Scientists say this shift in American energy policy will result in a warmer planet. As Lisa Friedman recently reported, ...

Now, this is not a new idea; solar-powered cars have raced, albeit at quite low speeds, for many years now. Ars even rode in one, in Manhattan of all places. But there's always a trade-off.

Solar Cars. Lightyear One, a car whose ability to use solar power has been thought of as an impossible feat, just won a Climate Change Innovator Award.Designed by the Dutch startup Lightyear, the ...

Solar-powered cars exist mainly as concept vehicles. Here's why mainstream adoption is so hard. By Chen Liu / The Conversation. Published Apr 2, 2024 8:00 AM EDT.

At first glance, the idea of a solar powered car seems preposterous. When thinking about solar energy most Americans envision dim stick-in-the-ground landscape lights or expensive rooftop panel ...

Why aren’t there solar-powered cars? –Emma, age 16, Springville, Utah. Solar cars exist. The best place to see them is the World Solar Challenge, a race that’s held every two years in Australia.