The future is here: the Japanese chemical and pharmaceutical company Tejihn and Applied Electric Vehicles, have designed and built the first photovoltaic passenger vehicle, electric and with a solar roof, built with a special polycarbonate resin called Panlite.

An innovative material which, if used for this type of technology, is easy to model, while remaining sturdy and shock-resistant, as well as of course to keep the photovoltaic cells that allow the vehicle to move in an excellent way. The power reached and recorded by the vehicle is about 330 W, exactly like that of the usual conventional glass panels. But there is more: the roof contributes up to 30% of the robot’s energy demand in its ideal conditions, which can lead the vehicle to reach from 30 to 55 kilometers, without forgetting the electrical nature of the vehicle, with which the panel is integrates perfectly. The prototype on which this special machine was installed is a platform called Blanc Robot, specialized in zero-emission robotic vehicles, fully programmable and adaptable to different systems according to drive by wire technology.

The idea will be to design other bodywork components with glass and external panels and to put it into production in 2022.