A team of Mountain View High School students is building a completely solar-powered car in order to compete on a Texas racetrack this July. In the home stretch of the project, Ryan Liu, a rising ...

While the world is experiencing a transition to electric-powered cars, the Northwestern University Solar Car Team, known as NUsolar, is making a vehicle that can gather electricity as well. The group ...

The car, designed and built by Detroit high school students, runs on solar powered batteries. On a cool and cloudy summer day, Michigan high school students drove the car they’d been engineering for ...

CES is usually a great time for companies to show off things they are working on. This includes products that will actually make it to the market and products that are futuristic concepts. At CES 2025 ...

The group is creating its own solar-powered race car from scratch, a task that takes three years. But they will be ready to compete soon. Three years. That is how long the Michigan State Solar Racing ...

Can electric cars be powered with solar panels? There are several electric cars with solar panels available today — some recharge the smaller 12-volt battery that runs your air conditioning, while ...

More than 30 college teams are showing off their innovations in solar car technology this week at a three-day race in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Thirty college teams competed in a three-day race over ...

I recently came across a September 18 article by the “future technology” editor at The Wall Street Journal, “Solar-Powered Cars and Trucks Are Almost Here” (sorry, behind paywall, but your local ...

The year was 2006. Electric cars were nothing more than vaporware, or just promising but limited one-off science experiments like the General Motors EV1 or Toyota RAV4 EV—and even those had been ...

The troubled startup got a helping hand from Italy’s Pininfarina. The troubled startup got a helping hand from Italy’s Pininfarina. is transportation editor with 10+ years of experience who covers EVs ...