solar-powered cars: Even if fully electric cars overtake petroleum-powered vehicles in sales, they still need to be plugged in, which means building a network of charging stations across the globe, according to The Japan Times. The sun, on the other hand, shines everywhere for free, and when that energy is paired with enough battery capacity to propel automobiles at night, solar-powered cars could leapfrog all the new-energy technologies being developed, from plug-in hybrids to hydrogen fuel cell vehicles, in one fell swoop. That's the audacious motivation behind a project by Toyota Motor Corp., Sharp Corp. and the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization of Japan, or NEDO, to test a Prius that could revolutionize transportation. ; The solar car's advantage is that while it can't drive for a long range it's really independent of charging facilities, said Koji Makino, a project manager at Toyota. But the current forecast is only partly sunny because there's still some work left to reach that level of efficiency. It's going to take a long time. This is not a technology we are going to see widely used in the next decades, said Takeshi Miyao, an auto analyst at consultancy Carnorama.
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