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‘World’s first off-road solar SUV’ just drove across Morocco powered only by the sun (edition.cnn.com)
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[–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

I'm not very well versed in solar tech, but what I think I know is that we've already approached about the max efficiency out of solar already, so there probably won't be large gains going forward.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago

    silicon solar panels are at their limit which is something like 30% efficient. Newer chemistry will go beyond that but as the other comment said even with double the power there isn't enough energy in sunlight for a car sized panel to get a car going for too long. Especially when there are clouds out (most of the time here)

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