{"id":104590,"date":"2020-04-01T14:23:07","date_gmt":"2020-04-01T21:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/teslas-next-killer-app-solar-power-on-its-electric-cars-starting-with-cybertruck"},"modified":"2020-04-01T14:23:07","modified_gmt":"2020-04-01T21:23:07","slug":"teslas-next-killer-app-solar-power-on-its-electric-cars-starting-with-cybertruck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/teslas-next-killer-app-solar-power-on-its-electric-cars-starting-with-cybertruck","title":{"rendered":"Tesla\u2019s next killer app: solar power on its electric cars \u2014 starting with Cybertruck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-Jed2shpBck?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Solar power on electric cars has yet to become a common feature, but Tesla is about to change that \u2014 starting with the Cybertruck electric pickup.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve discussed solar roofs on electric vehicles before, <a href=\"https:\/\/electrek.co\/2016\/06\/20\/toyota-prius-plug-prime-solar-panel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">most recently with the one on the latest Prius Prime<\/a>, but the recurring problem is that they rarely generate enough power to be worth it.<\/p>\n<p>For example, we estimated that the solar cells on the Prius Prime\u2019s roof could generate enough power to add about 2 miles of range during the day. And of course, that\u2019s highly dependent on where you are in the world and where you park your car.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Solar power on electric cars has yet to become a common feature, but Tesla is about to change that \u2014 starting with the Cybertruck electric pickup. We\u2019ve discussed solar roofs on electric vehicles before, most recently with the one on the latest Prius Prime, but the recurring problem is that they rarely generate enough power [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}