{"id":97853,"date":"2019-10-26T00:23:01","date_gmt":"2019-10-26T07:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/toyota-is-working-on-innovating-a-solar-powered-electric-car-that-can-run-forever-and-never-needs-charging"},"modified":"2019-10-30T20:23:45","modified_gmt":"2019-10-31T03:23:45","slug":"toyota-is-working-on-innovating-a-solar-powered-electric-car-that-can-run-forever-and-never-needs-charging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/toyota-is-working-on-innovating-a-solar-powered-electric-car-that-can-run-forever-and-never-needs-charging","title":{"rendered":"Toyota is working on innovating a solar-powered electric car that can \u2018run forever\u2019 and never needs charging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/toyota-is-working-on-innovating-a-solar-powered-electric-car-that-can-run-forever-and-never-needs-charging.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Coupled with a high enough battery capacity to keep a vehicle running during darker hours, solar-powered cars have the potential to completely outdo other new types of tech that are currently in the pipeline \u2014 from hybrid vehicles to hydrogen-powered cars.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<ul class=\"\">\n<li>Toyota, Sharp, and NEDO have teamed up to manufacture a unique car that could \u201crun forever\u201d, according to Bloomberg.<\/li>\n<li>There have been promising advances in developing thin enough solar panels for curved surfaces, as well as in tech for charging vehicles while they\u2019re in motion.<\/li>\n<li>The solar cells the companies are working on attaching to the car are only 0.03 mm thick, so they can be attached to curved areas on cars like the roof, the hood, or the hatchback.<\/li>\n<li>By pairing more efficient solar cells with high-capacity batteries to keep vehicles running at night, solar cars have the potential to outperform hybrid vehicles and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/scientists-just-made-a-breakthrough-with-hydrogen-powered-cars-2018-8?r=US&amp;IR=TIR=T\">hydrogen-powered<\/a> cars.<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/?hprecirc-bullet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Visit Business Insider\u2019s homepage for more stories.<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A solar-powered electric car that runs without needing charging may sound impossible, but Toyota, Sharp, and NEDO (New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization of Japan) have joined forces to hopefully make it a reality.<\/p>\n<p>By pairing together the best solar panels on the market with the most efficient batteries available \u2014 not to mention years worth of experience with car-manufacturing \u2014 the companies are hoping, theoretically, to produce a vehicle that might run forever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coupled with a high enough battery capacity to keep a vehicle running during darker hours, solar-powered cars have the potential to completely outdo other new types of tech that are currently in the pipeline \u2014 from hybrid vehicles to hydrogen-powered cars. Toyota, Sharp, and NEDO have teamed up to manufacture a unique car that could [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97853","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=97853"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98005,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97853\/revisions\/98005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}