Using conventional electricity to recharge a hybrid battery must be inherently unsound: burning coal, gas, or fuel oil to generate electricity to be transmitted over power lines with all the loss entailed can't be very efficient. If photovoltaic cells could do it, you'd be charging up your battery while you're at the mall or the ball game
There are two small details here that need to be considered, the first a practicality, the second an environmental point.
1. A hybrid car typically may need 30-80 KWH of electricity to fully recharge. If you covered all the horizontal surfaces of your car with the best quality solar cells (efficiency wise), you might be able to generate about 300 WH in BRIGHT sunlight.
Unfortunately, this is not only a drop in the ocean but would add a few thousand to the cost of the car AND perhaps 50-100 kilos in weight. This weight more than offsetting the small gains to be had by charging.
2. The last time I checked, the amount of energy that is required to make the solar cell (from refining the silicon to the finished product) is so great that most solar cells will never actually generate the amount of energy that was used to create them in the first place. The VERY long life ones WILL do so - years down the line.
So in short, good thoughts but until they are MUCH more efficient, much lighter, last longer and use less power to create, they are not ideally suited for hybrid cars / th environment just yet.
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