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Helmond-based solar car maker Lightyear suspends car production, switches to building solar roofs (siliconcanals.com)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Maybe with some of the super cheap perovskite cells coming out? Maybe.

It's a very marginal idea, at best. Even in equatorial regions under perfect weather, there just isn't that much solar power you can collect with the space of a car roof.