page_title: Solar vehicle
section_title: Personal rapid transit
hierarchical_section_title: Solar vehicle / Land / Personal rapid transit
caption_attribution_description: English: Solar Powered Transportation Network, JPods version of Personal Rapid Transit.
context_page_description: A solar vehicle is an electric vehicle powered completely or significantly by direct solar energy. Usually, photovoltaic cells contained in solar panels convert the sun's energy directly into electric energy. The term "solar vehicle" usually implies that solar energy is used to power all or part of a vehicle's propulsion. Solar power may be also used to provide power for communications or controls or other auxiliary functions.
  Solar vehicles are not sold as practical day-to-day transportation devices at present, but are primarily demonstration vehicles and engineering exercises, often sponsored by government agencies. However, indirectly solar-charged vehicles are widespread and solar boats are available commercially.
context_section_description: Several personal rapid transit (PRT) concepts incorporate photovoltaic panels.
caption: JPods PRT concept with photovoltaic panels above guideways
exif: {"Image Orientation": "Horizontal (normal)", "Image XResolution": "72", "Image YResolution": "72", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Image Software": "Adobe Photoshop CS Macintosh", "Image DateTime": "2007:09:04 21:58:47", "Image ExifOffset": "164", "Thumbnail Compression": "JPEG (old-style)", "Thumbnail XResolution": "72", "Thumbnail YResolution": "72", "Thumbnail ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormat": "302", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormatLength": "10849", "EXIF ColorSpace": "Uncalibrated", "EXIF ExifImageWidth": "610", "EXIF ExifImageLength": "458"}