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Solar panels are cropping up in some interesting places, including the body parts of electric vehicles. That poses some challenges in terms of functionality and collision repairs, but a next-best thing is already emerging in the form of tonneau covers, the big flat panels that lock over the beds of pickup trucks, whether electric or not. With millions of pickups on the road in the US alone, that adds up to a lot of solar panels.
Solar Panels On Pickup Trucks
There really are millions of pickup trucks on the road in the US alone. Back in 1995 the US Bureau of Transportation Statistics logged registrations for almost 65 million trucks of various sorts on the road, with pickups taking the single biggest share at 28 million. By 2019 the number of pickups leaped to 48 million.
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