Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On a recent drive along the California coast, I passed gas stations knowing that the sun was filling my tank free of charge. Gas ...

If you design it right, a primarily solar-powered car is very much a possibility. That's exactly what a team from Clemson University, which runs an automotive engineering graduate program, did. Better ...

Aptera Motors (SEV) co-founder and CEO Chris Anthony comes on Asking for a Trend to discuss the features of the company's three-wheeled car, which can cover up to 40 miles of daily driving on the ...

There have been many ways of traveling Route 66 during this Centennial Year of the Mother Road, which tied America together in so many ways. But one of the most unique has been the 2026 Electrek ...

A group of Stanford students drove across eight states this summer, on a trip fueled not by gas or electricity but sunlight. They did so as part of the 2026 American Solar Challenge, a biennial ...

Solar panels are extremely expensive, which is why you don't often see this technology used on automobiles. Some cars have incorporated small solar panels onto the body panels, but large-scale use is ...

The students finished 14th out of 30 teams in their debut appearance, completing nearly 800 kilometers in a car they designed and built themselves.

Aptera Motors says its solar-powered vehicle, the Aptera, can travel up to 40 miles a day on sunlight alone, on top of a 400-mile battery range. (Video: Zoë Meyers/The Washington Post) Test-driving a ...