, an electric car powered by solar panels embedded in its roof, hood, and sides. Laurin Hahn founded the company in 2016 together with Jona Christians and Navina Pernsteiner in a garage where they developed their first prototype by hand. They wanted to see whether their vision of a Solar Electric Vehicle could come true.. “That’s why we want to make electric cars available to the mass markets. Fossil fuels are a limited and unsustainable resource.
We don’t think much about it, but the refrigerated trucks and trailers that transport perishables to market are cooled by diesel powered air conditioning units that run constantly, spewing plenty of nasty emissions in their wake. Sono Motors has signed a contract with theThe trailer, covered in solar panels, will be used to evaluate the technical and economic feasibility of integrating solar panels into this high volume transportation segment.
Can you folks do the maths? I can't square the circle of the amount of PV needed to move a semi any real distance, day over day. The energy creation isn't there for the m^2
really new, facepalm…