Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A top car manufacturing company is developing a new type of paint that could generate electricity. Mercedes-Benz's engineers ...

It sounds like an idea straight out of a five-year-old’s imagination: A car covered in solar panels runs entirely on energy from the sun. As far-fetched as it seems, this isn’t pure fantasy.

Instead of relying solely on charging stations or placing a solar panel atop its cars, Mercedes-Benz is now looking towards a new innovation which it calls the 'solar paint' which will no longer need ...

We've seen a few key improvements in both paint and electric vehicles over the past year. And while those two industries might not seem all that connected beyond EVs having paint on them, Mercedes ...

A photovoltaic paste under development could turn ordinary body panels into solar panels. It sounds like an idea straight out of a five-year-old’s imagination: A car covered in solar panels runs ...