With solar panels that thin toyota has the flexibility to add them to not only the car s.
Prius persona solar panel.
The solar cells are just 0 03mm thick but deliver around 860.
Unlike the previous solar panels to adorn its plug in hybrid the new.
In good conditions the panel will likely add about.
So while your prius is parked in the sun it is actually storing energy and powering the ventilation system and fan maintaining a cooler temperature on the interior of your vehicle.
Toyota will start testing a new solar roof for the prius that it says can add as much as 44 5 km of range to the plug in hybrid a day.
The car uses photovoltaic solar cells from sharp that toyota says are 34 percent efficient plus altogether the company says that on an ideal sunny day the solar panels could give the prius.
Koji toyoshima toyota s chief engineer for the prius plug in says that the solar panel will increase car s efficiency by up to 10 percent.