In an era where gas prices at the pump spiking as high as we have seen lately, a low-carbon car that shatters preconceived notions of electric vehicles – may be the solution. Tesla Motors seemed to be working on this dream for many years – a quixotic dream.

Tesla is totally electric, goes from 0 to 60 in less than 4 seconds and can travel nearly 250 miles (400 km)  on a single charge, says Tesla Motors Company’s home page. Of course, a skeptic might wonder where all of that electricity - during peak acceleration, enough to power 2,000 incandescent light bulbs - is coming from and how clean it is to produce. But at the speeds a Tesla can travel, you might tend to overlook such issues.

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Techno Station is yet not on rumors but word is out and it says that Toyota Motor Corp. is developing a Prius that will be powered solely by solar energy in an effort to turn around its struggling business with a futuristic ecological car.

Toyota, the manufacturer of the Lexus luxury car and Camry sedan, has already begun using solar panels at its Tsutsumi plant in central Japan to produce some of its own electricity. The solar panels on the roofs add up in size to the equivalent of 60 tennis courts and produce enough electricity to power 500 homes, according to Toyota. That reduces 740 tons a year of carbon dioxide emissions and is equal to using 1,500 barrels of crude oil. Read the rest of this article »