The Challenges of Electric Cars

There are solar powered cars around. There's a race every year in Australia and there's one, I think is an international competition to build a solar powered car that can go the furthest. The tricky thing is with solar powered cars is that the solar panels take up so much space that it doesn't really leave much room for anything else. So what we need to be focusing on is decarbonizing our electricity grid so that the energy That is used to fill the batteries. If you've got batteries, that means you're not driving even when it's dark,. You can drive even when it’s cloudy. It actually makes a lot more sense for us to basically switch the grid