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- Take the product a step further and you can integrate it into electric vehicles with ease
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People who can't do math need to stop doing engineering. I've built a solar car, and the math doesn't work for that. Even at best efficiency, the surface area of all the windows on a car don't come close to running the drive motor for more than a few miles. 8 square meters of space grade high efficiency cells can over the course of a day produce enough energy to run an ultralight car for about a hundred miles.
The glass of a family sedan is 4-5 sq meters, but only a fraction can be pointed at the sun at any one time. At best 2 sq-m, 600W at the most. Barely anything against the 4400w-h battery in the Prius, and that's only good for 11 miles.
Solar windows are for the curtain walls of skyscrapers, not cars.