Electric Vehicles

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Electric Vehicles are a key part of our tomorrow and how we get there. If we can get all the fossil fuel vehicles off our roads, out of our seas and out of our skies, we'll have a much better environment. This community is where we discuss the various different vehicles and news stories regarding electric transportation.

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Mercedes unveils car with 20% efficient ultra-thin solar coating (www.pv-magazine.com)

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[–] morphballganon@lemmynsfw.com 23 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Seeing comments nitpicking the body shape... it's the exact body shape it needs to be to get rich investors to finance it and tech bros to buy it. Smart move.

They can expand to sedans and SUVs later.

[–] BedSharkPal@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I think it's more to maximize surface area for solar power generation.

[–] morphballganon@lemmynsfw.com 9 points 1 month ago

There's nothing inhibiting their engineers from designing sedan and SUV bodies with comparable surface areas.

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 4 points 1 month ago

I doubt it generates enough energy either way. If that mattered they'd put in a long ass trunk as well.