clemson students ask what a parked car can doPassenger cars spend most of their time sitting somewhere. Clemson University’s Deep Orange 17 starts with that simple observation and asks what all those stationary hours could contribute to an electric vehicle. Working with the team at Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE, the Clemson students integrated photovoltaic cells directly across the exterior surfaces, using the available skin of the car as an energy-harvesting area. Deep Orange 17 is useful because it makes those conditions part of the design conversation in the first place. Deep Orange 17 looks at all the hours between trips and finds another source sitting in plain sight: the car itself, parked in the sun.