It sounds like an idea straight out of a five-year-old’s imagination: A car covered in solar panels runs entirely on energy from the sun. As far-fetched as it seems, this isn’t pure fantasy.

Thanks to their ever-increasing battery capacity, improvements to overall range, and the proliferation of charging infrastructure across the globe, the chances of one getting stranded in an electric ...

If we asked you to think of a solar panel, it would likely conjure images of a boring black rectangle in your mind. But Toyota is working to change that, with a first-of-its-kind technology that ...