If you thought that solar power is limited to running electric appliances in your home only, then you are in for a surprise.

Solar power system is now used to run not only generators and turbines, but also cars! Yes you read it absolutely right. There are solar powered cars which run on the same concept as any other solar powered appliance.

Solar powered cars also known as solar powered vehicles which run on electricity generated by photovoltaic cells installed within the car mechanics.

The idea was first limited to using solar power to run air conditioning or heaters of your car, but with the advance of technology and the degrading rate of renewable fuels, car designers have come up with this brilliant idea of solar powered cars which use the sunlight instead of petrol or diesel to run themselves.

Know more about solar powered cars

If you are a sucker for automobiles and keep up with the trend of the latest automobile related technologies and designs, then you ought to know about solar powered cars.

However you should also know that the technology is pretty new in the market and therefore solar powered vehicles, as in cars are just more in design and automobile magazines, and havent taken over the market yet.

The reason behind so is that, technology needs to upgrade and prepare itself with problems such as running such cars in areas where the sun might not be too keen to show up itself.

Also solar power generators for running such cars are to be highly modified to not only fir the car design, but also the consumption of energy for the same.

Solar cars are mainly built for racing games, and are specialized to propel such automobiles using solar energy along with normal fuel.

As of now the most modern solar powered car also uses the maximum solar energy that the photovoltaic cells on the surface of such a car can use to convert the same into electricity and depending on the same, the mileage of running such a car is not enough.

Therefore such cars are like the new age future cars, which are in the process to get updated and modified before the world runs out of non-renewable sources of energy, petrol and diesel to name a few counted amongst fuels to propel a car engine to run a car.

Know the pros and cons of solar powered cars

Pros:

Solar powered cars use renewable resource which will never fall short i.e. the solar power.

Solar powered cars are going to be the most eco friendly car, as there will be no pollution and hence are also known as the future eco friendly or environment friendly cars.

Cons:

If a solar powered car runs entirely on solar power then the car has to be in the presence of sunlight all the time. It is almost like running a mobile on charge.

The solar powered batteries so designed till date, are not yet modified technologically enough to provide solar powered cars. A large battery to run an entire car on solar power is still a design and plan in the process.