Even Tesla chief executive Elon Musk is on board with the idea.
“This is kind of a ‘shrug, why not?’ topic,” says BloombergNEF analyst Jenny Chase. “Cars of the future will have a bit of solar on the roof as standard.”The Tesla chief executive has said — or, tweeted — that buyers of his long-promised Cybertruck will beMusk has also said a car is one of the least efficient places to put solar.
Any EV can be “solar-powered” by plugging into an array of panels at home or a charger that is itself powered by solar energy. She says we may also “reach a point where it makes more economic sense for a wide range of vehicles to have some solar installed.” At current rates, a panel array the size of the one on the Sonata has dropped from $222 to about $48. BloombergNEFthe glut of cheap product to continue this year as another nine panel-makers hit the market, a 50% increase over the current crop.
Instead of trying to maximize the size of the car’s solar array, Aptera set out to minimise the car itself.The Aptera is 36% lighter than a Toyota Prius, 38% more aerodynamic than a Tesla Model S and cuts down on rolling resistance by using three wheels instead of four. When Anthony started cobbling the Aptera together about a decade ago, solar panels were half as efficient as they are today, and electric motors and lithium-ion batteries were prohibitively expensive.
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