I was part of a team that
I was part of a team that built one of those solar race cars in 1990. I learned a lot and it makes it hard not to be very skeptical about PV solar and electric cars. The general lesson from my time working in the engineering field is that solar panels are small black boxes into which go 1.2 units of energy and from which 1.0 units emerge over their lifetime. Unless they break sooner than planned.