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Solar power for electric vehicles

Most of the companies developing photovoltaics have been obsessed with reaching grid parity meaning competitiveness with conventional grid electricity generation which is often highly subsidised. More recently, it has been realised that the market for disposable photovoltaics on consumer goods is at least as large and even the potential on electric vehicles by land, water and air, could be an enticing billion square meters a year, comparable to that for buildings.

New world record with efficient CIGS solar cell

The new record-breaking solar cells from ZSW are made of extremely thin layers of copper, indium, gallium and diselenide (CIGS for short).

Charging EVs from bumps in the road - Part two

In our article More Power from Bumps in the Road we described work at MIT on energy harvesting shock absorbers where one such device on a truck can generate as much as one kilowatt electrodynamically.

SolarPrint with Fiat powers vehicles of the future

Irish energy technology company SolarPrint have entered into a partnership with Italian car manufacturing giant, Fiat, to develop solar panels that can be incorporated into automotives roof surface, as a means of generating alternative sources of energy for vehicles by converting light to power.

SolarPrint enters into solar technology deal with Fiat

R&D consortium plans to develop the next generation of solar technology to cover the surface of electric vehicles.