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Originally posted by Wayne at Pelican Parts
Not even close yet. Our lightweight solar car had panels over 85% of it's chassis. If you rotated the car during the day to get maximum exposure, an entire days worth of sun would only charge the batteries 20%. The technology is far from there right now...

-Wayne
good point.

So many of the half-baked concepts (which people imagine, as "thee solution") are about as practical as saying everyone ought to commute in one of these:


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