While many have pointed to electric cars as one way to curb emissions, EVs still require energy to charge the batteries. If said energy comes from fossil fuels, it start to erode the vehicle's total ...

Reuters is crediting an anonymous source in reporting that Toyota will add solar panels to an uplevel trim of the next Prius hybrid. The solar panels will power just the air conditioning. The source ...

While Toyota has been skeptical of electric cars, the carmaker is expressing optimism about technology that can supplement plugging in: solar. Along with its battery partners NIDO and Sharp, Toyota is ...

Toyota has fitted out an experimental Prius with a fresh rooftop solar kit to explore the limits of sun-powered road travel. Unlike the previous solar panels to adorn its plug-in hybrid, the new array ...

TOKYO -- Toyota has been experimenting with a sun-powered Prius that it hopes will one day require no plugging in. In a Japanese government-funded demonstration project started in July, Toyota ...

Electric cars produce no “tailpipe” emissions, but the electricity that charges them needs to come from somewhere. Range anxiety and long charging times have kept many car buyers away. At the same ...

Toyota’s next generation of Prius hybrid cars will be fitted with solar panels to power on-board electrical items such as the air-conditioning system, it is reported. The third generation model of the ...

As electric cars become increasingly popular worldwide, there’s one renewable source of energy that could make them even more convenient and environmentally friendly: the Sun. Japanese auto giant ...

My first thought when I read the report that Toyota plans to add solar panels on the Prius was, well this is another marketing joke, pandering to drivers who want the green cachet but don’t know just ...

Toyota Motor Corp plans to install solar panels on some Prius hybrids in its next remodeling, responding to growing demand for “green” cars amid record-high oil prices, a source briefed on the matter ...