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 ...

Realistically, what would it take for solar powered cars to work out, and why haven't they been successful up until this point? This video will analyze the surface area of a modern car, providing an ...

It's a reasonable amount, but I wouldn't be planning any solar-powered road trips. Unfortunately, EVs just need too much power.

Solar-powered cars aren’t new. The real challenge isn’t harnessing sunlight – well, the source is quite abundant – but doing it without making the car look like a science project. Most solar panels ...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (KGO) -- A group of Mountain View High School students are hard at work building their very own solar-powered car. It's all by hand and from scratch - some of the students are ...

Some 20 years after it was first founded, San Diego, California-based startup Aptera has taken its solar-powered electric vehicle (EV) out on a proper 300-mile (~480-km) road trip – the first time ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Solar-powered cars have been little more than ...

The Somerset Solar Jumpers are putting their engineering skills to good use. Students at Somerset High School are putting engineering skills to good use by building their own solar-powered car. The ...

The group is creating its own solar-powered race car from scratch, a task that takes three years. But they will be ready to compete soon. Three years. That is how long the Michigan State Solar Racing ...

OSHKOSH (WLUK) -- Solar-powered food cookers, solar-powered cars and solar-powered photography were just some of the solar-focused items to fill the Culver Center at UW-Oshkosh Wednesday morning. It's ...

Finally, a major automaker figured out how to blend solar tech into an EV without making it look like a science fair project, but it’s still very much a concept. Solar-powered cars struggle with ...