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Solar roadways failed for the same reason Tesla will NEVER outsell gasoline cars: bad technology that's orders of magnitude worse than existing solutions.

That being said, a huge leap forward in technology would make BOTH viable.

A better road-based electricity generation plan would have been to use piezoelectric panels instead of photovoltaic ones.




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