They’re out there right
now. Well, maybe not in the U.S. but in other parts of the world.
It’s a little early in the technology, but they’re coming. Battery
electric cars with solar panels to augment their range. Aptera.
Fisker. Sono Motors. Mercedes Benz. They’re all working on
them.
Aptera claims a combined
range, solar and plug-in, of 1,000 miles for its car that’s almost in
production.
But imagine an order of
magnitude improvement in battery technology. An order of magnitude
improvement in solar technology. That will happen in a few years (or
decades). Put them together on cars and one day we’ll be looking back
saying “Remember when you had to stop and put fuel in a car?” We’ll be
driving whenever we want and as far as we want, without ever stopping to fuel
up. There will still need to be convenience stores along the highway so
we can stock up on Krispy Kremes though.
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