Electric car that charges itself
Having worked on a solar car as a student project, solar panels on a car are at best a marketing gimmick. There&#x27;s definitely not enough area on a car to power a car anyone wants to drive, even under ideal conditions at a reasonable duty cycle, and issues of shading are even worse for a car than a stationary panel. Also solar panels are fragile and encapsulating them so that they are robust enough to be on the exterior of a car costs substantial weight. Putting solar panels on the car is only slightly better than putting them on the road surface.<p>If the car is decent as a plug-in electric car, then it still may be worth getting. If the solar panels are sufficiently non-intrusive they may even be close to neutral in terms of the utility of the car, but they do not improve it.