{"id":205900,"date":"2026-04-25T16:23:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T20:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/25\/why-arent-there-solar-powered-cars-around-the-web\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T17:20:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T21:20:10","slug":"why-arent-there-solar-powered-cars-around-the-web","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/25\/why-arent-there-solar-powered-cars-around-the-web\/","title":{"rendered":"Why aren\u2019t there solar-powered cars? | Around The Web"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.laconiadailysun.com\/around_the_web\/why-aren-t-there-solar-powered-cars\/article_a48c8563-fb82-53e9-aa3d-70696402d567.html\">Why aren\u2019t there solar-powered cars? | Around The Web<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.laconiadailysun.com\/around_the_web\/why-aren-t-there-solar-powered-cars\/article_a48c8563-fb82-53e9-aa3d-70696402d567.html\">https:\/\/www.laconiadailysun.com\/around_the_web\/why-aren-t-there-solar-powered-cars\/article_a48c8563-fb82-53e9-aa3d-70696402d567.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-04-25 16:23:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.laconiadailysun.com\">www.laconiadailysun.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here are five key points from the passage:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Solar cars exist but are not practical for everyday use:<\/strong> While solar cars do exist, they are primarily showcased in competitions like the World Solar Challenge, which highlights the challenges in making them a common mode of transportation.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Limited surface area for solar energy collection:<\/strong> Due to the relatively small surface area of standard cars compared to large solar farms, cars aren\u2019t very efficient at harnessing sunlight.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Inefficiency of current solar panels:<\/strong> Solar panels currently have an efficiency rate of about 20%, meaning only one-fifth of the sunlight that hits them is converted into usable electricity. <\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Weather and geographical challenges:<\/strong> The effectiveness of solar energy collection is heavily impacted by geographical location, weather conditions, and daylight hours, making it unreliable in many parts of the world.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Ongoing research and potential for the future:<\/strong> Researchers are working on increasing the efficiency of solar technology and making solar car components more affordable. In the meantime, electric vehicles often use renewable energy sources, including solar power.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why aren\u2019t there solar-powered cars? | Around The Web https:\/\/www.laconiadailysun.com\/around_the_web\/why-aren-t-there-solar-powered-cars\/article_a48c8563-fb82-53e9-aa3d-70696402d567.html Publish Date: 2026-04-25 16:23:00 Source&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":205901,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com\/laconiadailysun.com\/content\/tncms\/assets\/v3\/editorial\/8\/20\/820b6af6-7561-504a-8425-f7378a74005c\/69ed2bcb847f8.image.jpg?crop=1050%2C551%2C0%2C74","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205900"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205900"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":205902,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205900\/revisions\/205902"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}