{"id":93304,"date":"2019-07-08T12:43:16","date_gmt":"2019-07-08T19:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/toyota-to-test-solar-panels-for-electric-cars"},"modified":"2019-07-08T12:43:16","modified_gmt":"2019-07-08T19:43:16","slug":"toyota-to-test-solar-panels-for-electric-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/toyota-to-test-solar-panels-for-electric-cars","title":{"rendered":"Toyota to test solar panels for electric cars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/toyota-to-test-solar-panels-for-electric-cars2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s not to like about this concept: high-efficiency solar cells gifting electric cars with mileage.<\/p>\n<p>Bertel Schmitt, <i>The Drive<\/i>, said, \u201cThe solar roof could <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedrive.com\/tech\/28835\/suddenly-solar-powered-cars-have-a-brighter-future\">morph<\/a> from mostly a marketing-device to a helpful feature.\u201d He noted that, referring to plug-ins, \u201cOn a fair-weather day, the juice would be provided by the sun, a big improvement especially for people who don\u2019t have their own garage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Toyota has ambitions over the concept and is to start testing an onboard solar recharging system where the hood, the roof, and back are covered with cells. The solar roof can charge while the car is on the move.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What\u2019s not to like about this concept: high-efficiency solar cells gifting electric cars with mileage. Bertel Schmitt, The Drive, said, \u201cThe solar roof could morph from mostly a marketing-device to a helpful feature.\u201d He noted that, referring to plug-ins, \u201cOn a fair-weather day, the juice would be provided by the sun, a big improvement especially [\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-93304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93304","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=93304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}