{"id":1994,"date":"2020-10-08T22:03:15","date_gmt":"2020-10-08T22:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/?p=1994"},"modified":"2020-10-08T22:03:15","modified_gmt":"2020-10-08T22:03:15","slug":"whats-coming-to-evs-solar-truck-beds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/whats-coming-to-evs-solar-truck-beds\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s coming to EVs? Solar Truck Beds"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The companies working on solar panels in and on truck beds? <a href=\"https:\/\/worksport.com\/us\/\">Worksport<\/a>, a Toronto-based manufacturer of pickup-truck accessories<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How could it work?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>bed-mounted batteries<\/li><li>stored energy to power appliances and tools at jobsites, campsites&#8230;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Will the solar panels only work in EV trucks? No, traditional fuel and hybrid trucks could also have solar power truck beds<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Are there power generation estimates? On the Cybertruck,  Elon Musk estimates  15 miles of range per day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/physisinvest\/\">@physisinvest on instagram<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/worksport-launch-folding-solar-panel-bed-cover-pickup-truck-terravis-2020-8?utm_campaign=later-linkinbio-physisinvest&amp;utm_content=later-9772064&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=instagram\">Business Insider | A solar-panel bed cover brings sustainable power to gas-powered pickups \u2014\u00a0and could someday help charge EV pickups from Rivian, Ford, and GM<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The companies working on solar panels in and on truck beds? Worksport, a Toronto-based manufacturer of pickup-truck accessories How could it work? bed-mounted batteries stored energy to power appliances and tools at jobsites, campsites&#8230; Will the solar panels only work in EV trucks? No, traditional fuel and hybrid trucks could also have solar power truck [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1994"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1995,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1994\/revisions\/1995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}