The goal of this page is to provide information about electric cars. It should answer some questions and provide many links to where you can get additional information. Whenever there is a discussion about electric vehicles, there is usually strong arguments from both sides, and they are often both correct since they tend to argue different points. We will try and state facts and sources for them where possible. In short, solar cars are not a practical means of transportation with today's technology.
Solar cells are inefficient, fragile, and expensive.
That's a bad combination for something you want to put out on the street. Like an Indy car, solar cars are just built for racing. They demonstrate EV and solar technology and push it forward by placing it in a situation where everything must operate at its highest efficiency. But this doesn't mean that a practical solar vehicle won't exist sometime in the future. Research into non-semiconductor based solar cells may yield high efficiency cells that are also reasonably inexpensive.