The latest news from My Electric Car.com reported on the Australian Immortus Concept by EVX Ventures in the August 2015 newsletter.
“The very idea of having your EV charge directly from sunshine is so appealing. Now a Chinese company, Hanergy Holding Group, is aiming to produce a suite of vehicles that will do precisely that.
Hanergy is a multinational clean energy company as well as the world’s leading thin-film solar power company. On July 2nd they introduced a quartet of thin-film solar cell powered EVs in Beijing that will travel 80kms on 5 hours of sunshine.
They will also have a charge point for standard charging and the company claims the vehicles will have a fully charged range of 350kms per charge.
Hanergy’s light weight, flexible gallium arsenide (GaAs) dual-junction thin-film cells have a conversion rate of 31.6% efficiency and were recognised earlier this year by US based National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) as having the highest conversion rate.
Imagine – a vehicle that charges as you drive – from the sun and for free! Read more here.”
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Sounds good to me. I hope they reach the mainstream market sooner rather than later.
we are sooo behind the rest of the world when it comes to electric and solar powered cars. However, the energy and knowhow are here.