Back in 1984, the founders of SEV actually developed the first car powered exclusively by solar energy with a 1.2-kW solar array, a 1-hp wheel motor and no batteries, which ran at speeds of up to ...

The four-year-old firm got its first big jolt this year when a new state law made it legal to drive solar-powered cars -- basically ... Solar vehicle street legal in Illinois, but is it economical?

when they created the UK's first road-legal solar car, Affinity. Their most recent development, Mirage, is a 5m (16ft) long carbon-fibre vehicle, which uses solar cells as its power source.