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.

[Image: Mercedes-Benz] Unlike typical solar panels, this solar paint doesn ... It announced a concept Mercedes with a solar power paint job back in 2014. But the technology has advanced.

Besides making them significantly less bulky than today's solar panels, these panels are thin enough to be integrated into the outer paint coating of the car, thereby earning them the name "solar ...

In the Mercedes-Benz solution, the solar coating would be applied directly to the car's body panels, with the color paint job sprayed right over the top. That'd protect the photovoltaics from grit ...

We’ve seen a few key improvements in both paint ... new solar paint that could reportedly remove all range anxiety from owning an electric vehicle. Mercedes-Benz revealed the new paint back ...

Instead of relying solely on charging stations or placing a solar panel atop its cars, Mercedes-Benz is now looking towards a new innovation which it calls the 'solar paint' which will no longer ...

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.