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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A San Diego-based electric car maker has achieved milestone with testing of its first production-intent vehicle. Aptera Motors ...

At CES 2025, I took a ride in an electric car that you'd almost never have to plug in. Yes, your read that correctly. The Aptera Solar EV is keen to ditch the plug entirely, and it's hardly for the ...

The Bridgestone World Solar Challenge in Australia tests the limits of solar power in futuristic race car designs. Competitors from around the globe build vehicles which travel nearly 2,000 miles ...

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 ...

FLAGSTAFF, AZ (AZFamily) — About 7% of Americans own an electric car. However, no one owns a solar-powered car, but that could soon change as one company is close to releasing the first-ever ...

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 Aptera Launch Edition EV offers 400 miles of range on a single charge using an electrical output in addition to 40 miles per day powered by only the sun. When you purchase through links on our ...

Solar power is abundant and readily available, so why don't cars use it? With electric cars becoming more popular and a shift towards renewable energy sources is taking place, an obvious question ...

Researcher and PhD candidate: Future Electrical Energy Technology (FEET) Research Group (School of Electrical and Information Engineering), University of the Witwatersrand The battery performance also ...

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 ...