Solar Powered

The father and son team behind the world's fastest quadcopter we featured last year has now built what essentially looks like a flying photovoltaic panel, in a bid to create a drone that's powered by solar alone.

If someone is experiencing homelessness, their smartphone often becomes their sole means of staying connected with loved ones. Charging that phone can be hard, however, which is why the solar-panel-equipped Makeshift Traveler backpack was created.

Work recently completed on yet another extraordinary luxury getaway in Saudi Arabia. Named Shebara Resort, the development features a collection of futuristic pod-like villas that appear to float above the Red Sea.

Nobody likes buildings that are too hot in the summer or too cold in the winter. That's where the FlectoLine facade comes in, as it uses two bio-inspired mechanisms to regulate how much solar thermal energy gets through a building's windows.

Researchers at Australia's RMIT University have devised a simple and clever contraption that could make drinking water available in disaster-stricken areas, by pulling it out of thin air.

The YongLE Risheng CG is a wind/solar motorcycle that sports a roof covered in 250W solar panels to which a wind turbine is mounted. It's not the most aesthetic design we've seen on a motorcycle, but hey, it works... apparently.

Some 20 years after it was first founded, San Diego, California-based startup Aptera has taken its solar-powered electric vehicle out on a proper 300-mile road trip – the first time it's been filmed doing so.

Electric Outdoors has created an entirely off-grid solution that requires zero infrastructure and makes unlimited power and water. As far as we know, there's nothing else like it on the market.

House W is a family home that takes the form of a barn split into two areas and joined by glazing. Its energy efficient design, which includes solar panels, allows it to generate almost twice as much power as it requires annually.

Boxabl's latest tiny home creation, the Baby Box, is an ultra-compact, foldable tiny home. It's designed to be so easy and simple to construct that one person, without any tools, can set it up and start living the tiny life. And it's cheap.

As the production window approaches for what's described as "the world’s most efficient EV pickup," startup Telo has formed a partnership with Aptera. The latter will supply its PV cells for optional solar paneling for the upcoming compact e-truck.

San Diego's storied e-mobility startup Aptera is driving into CES 2025 for the first public showing of its production-intent solar electric vehicle, which has just been aero tweaked with help from Pininfarina.