{"id":96124,"date":"2019-09-12T10:42:54","date_gmt":"2019-09-12T17:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/toyota-tests-solar-powered-prius-in-quest-for-plugless-electric-car"},"modified":"2019-09-12T10:42:54","modified_gmt":"2019-09-12T17:42:54","slug":"toyota-tests-solar-powered-prius-in-quest-for-plugless-electric-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/toyota-tests-solar-powered-prius-in-quest-for-plugless-electric-car","title":{"rendered":"Toyota tests solar-powered Prius in quest for plugless electric car"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/toyota-tests-solar-powered-prius-in-quest-for-plugless-electric-car2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOKYO (Reuters) \u2014 Inspired by new ultra-thin solar panels developed for satellites, a project led by Toyota Motor Corp is experimenting with a sun-powered Prius that it hopes will one day require no plugging in.<\/p>\n<p>In the Japanese government-funded demonstration project, Toyota engineers fitted solar panels designed by Sharp Corp to the hood, roof, rear window and spoiler to see how much juice the sun can generate.<\/p>\n<p>The electricity from the panels goes directly to the drive battery, so the Prius can charge while moving or when parked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TOKYO (Reuters) \u2014 Inspired by new ultra-thin solar panels developed for satellites, a project led by Toyota Motor Corp is experimenting with a sun-powered Prius that it hopes will one day require no plugging in. In the Japanese government-funded demonstration project, Toyota engineers fitted solar panels designed by Sharp Corp to the hood, roof, rear [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1490,2028,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-satellites","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96124","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\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}