The shelf - folding solar cover for cars
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3709 designers from 96 different countries participated for green life competition, organized by designboom. The second most voted idea was by Leon Zhu from China for a project called ’shelf’.
The Shelf is a folding solar cover for cars to protect the car from sun, while also using suns energy to power the air-conditioner, keeping the car cool while parked on a sunny day.
This futuristic cover is stored in the rear wing, which should improve the stability of car at high speed.
Surely it does look weird and little unrealistic, but lets face it if solar panels on cars could be made cheaper and more efficient they could play a big part in future cars. But a solar cover in this case could be something absolutely different. Especially if it covered the whole car, not just the top as is the case with shelf.

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