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There is a tiny image hidden at the bottom on one of the race team pages which represents an interesting effort towards a road legal solar car.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNSW_Sunswift#/media/File:Suns...

They are now working on the sunswift 8 which is to be a combination of solar battery and hydrogen.

They are not calling it a solar car anymore apparently.

https://www.unsw.edu.au/challeng/vertically-integrated-proje...

Pure solar is indeed to much of a constraint, it make it more challenging than propelling humans over roads in an enclosure needs to be.

A big problem is sharing the road with conventional vehicles. Many could probably drive straight though it, a Tesla could probably drive straight though it.

If the car must be a strong metal container the choices quickly reduce to the things on the market right now.

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