As predicted, there’s no Toyota Electric Car in the works.
The official line from Toyota spokesperson Jana Hartline yesterday was “we’re not aware of any such vehicle, planned or otherwise.”
As you can see from the previous post it IS possible to power a car exclusively from solar electricity, but from panels mounted on the roof in suburbia? Not going to happen.
An electric car has just completed an around the world trip covering 32,000 miles using only home solar power according to this post at Nashuatelegraph.
The car can travel at up to 55mph and has a range of 185 miles on a full charge.
There’s a lot of talk about an electric car powered by PV cells on it’s roof being developed by Toyota. This story, first reported this week’s Nikkei newspaper, is variously described as both both nonsense and a technological breakthrough. Wired is now claiming that Toyota’s Solar Concept may not be a car at all.
Personally I don’t see that enough sunlight falls on the roof of a car, even assuming somebody could manufacture PV cells with 100% efficiency, to power a car for anything more than occassional use.
We shall see.
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