The solar cells are just 0 03mm thick but deliver around 860.
Prius persona solar panel.
Unlike the previous solar panels to adorn its plug in hybrid the new.
The car uses photovoltaic solar cells from sharp that toyota says are 34 percent efficient plus altogether the company says that on an ideal sunny day the solar panels could give the prius.
Koji toyoshima toyota s chief engineer for the prius plug in says that the solar panel will increase car s efficiency by up to 10 percent.
With solar panels that thin toyota has the flexibility to add them to not only the car s.
In good conditions the panel will likely add about.
Toyota will start testing a new solar roof for the prius that it says can add as much as 44 5 km of range to the plug in hybrid a day.
The new prius models will have solar panels built by sharp thin films that are around 0 001 inches thick.