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The bottom line is that solar on a car, with today's available efficiencies, is stupid to not have. Anything electric should have solar on it by default.

And now I will repeat the REAL problem with solar powered cars that I posted earlier today:
If George Soros, Al Gore, and Greta Thunberg do not step in to smash the Lightyear 1 and other similar cars, no one will want to drive with gasoline because solar really will be the way. BANK ON IT, THAT IS THE VERY LAST OF THE LAST LAST THING THE CLIMATE CHANGE CROWD WANTS BECAUSE THEY NEED YOU TO BE GUILT TRIPPED INTO PAYING A GLOBAL TAX, WHICH IS WHAT THE CARBON TAX IS. If there's suddenly a solution available that allows you to opt out on the carbon tax, they are going to crush it. They already have the carbon tax so freaking high that it costs many Canadians 5000+ CAD per year. It is a disaster and an ENORMOUS cash cow that no one is going to want to let go of. I am really surprised Canada and other countries allowed their people to be raped so badly by this.

The "sustainability" crowd that is gaining enormous financial clout via the exploitation of "guilt" absolutely WILL be hypocrites, we all know "climate change" is a scam to get people to destroy their quality of life. What's going to happen when that scam comes face to face with a solution that makes it impossible to cash in on? I'd say a LOT of suicides at Toyota and Lightyear. And stupid red tape regulations that will prevent true "sustainability" from ever happening. I don't believe they want it, - sustainability is just a convenient excuse to wreck everything and get people walking and living in cells. They'll take it all the way to "bicycles are destroying the world" eventually - proven by the fact that they already went after cow farts. If they went after flatulence, there's simply no limits for them.

It will take them a while to cast their compunctions aside and allow their hypocrisy to show in full open view - a few years, so we'll probably see token numbers of solar cars that will become the future DeLorians and then they'll fade into obscurity. But solar cars will happen, and whether or not they actually are allowed to make it will depend totally upon whether or not they can be successfully prevented from going mainstream by Al Gore and others of that ilk. Al Gore knows "climate change" is a scam, don't kid yourself by believing he actually believes the crap he spews to keep the gravy train going.

Anyone can make up any numbers they want and apply the worst case scenario to anything. I'll use the American scenario. In America, the light year 1 will do an easy 80 KM per day of full sun practically anywhere. Most people don't drive that much, so as my original post stated, we are going to need the new solid state batteries before a car can operate predominantly solar because such batteries can take the excess from the best days and give it back when needed. The way average people drive in the U.S. (12, 000 miles a year) they'd put that battery to max in short order if they paid attention to where they parked the car, and then have at least 1, 500 miles saved for a rainy day.