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Toyota Is Trying to Figure Out How to Make a Car Run Forever
- Prius prototype travels about 56 kilometers without charging
- Model covered by 1,100 solar cells the size of business cards
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Put together the best solar panels money can buy, super-efficient batteries and decades of car-making know-how and, theoretically, a vehicle might run forever.
That’s the audacious motivation behind a project by Toyota Motor Corp., Sharp Corp. and New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization of Japan, or NEDO, to test a Prius that could revolutionize transportation.