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New Device Turns Heat into Light Could Boost Solar Cell Efficiency to 80%
- clouddrover 7y agoThis could be really good for electric cars. Toyota's current solar panel experiment is supposed to be capable of delivering 56 kilometres a day in ideal conditions: https://newatlas.com/toyota-prius-solar-roof/60461/ https://newatlas.com/toyota-prius-solar-roof/60461/ Sono Motors Sion can do up to 34 km per day from solar: https://sonomotors.com/en/sion/ https://sonomotors.com/en/sion/ The Lightyear One is predicted to do up to 72 km per day from solar: https://lightyear.one https://lightyear.one Doubling that efficiency would be huge, especially if it's also possible to use the system to capture waste heat from the motor or the battery.