French company creates paint for charging cars and power generation

<p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr">ArabiaWeather.com - The French company Colas has succeeded in making a roof made of <strong>solar cells</strong> consisting of one photovoltaic cell with a diameter of 15 square centimeters, which will be pasted on existing roads and coated with a special material to withstand traffic, and called it “Wattway”.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> The CEO of the company, “Hervé Le Boucque,” explained that these surfaces are sold in the form of tiles that are applied to roads or parking lots, and the flow of one million cars has been tested on Wattway at the airports of Chambery and Grenoble, equivalent to twenty years in normal traffic, and the result was that The surface did not move.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> This technology will enhance existing roads and produce clean, local and renewable energy. There is a lot of equipment that will benefit from this technology, including traffic lights, public lighting, public transportation, electric cars, homes and offices, and others.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> In terms of yield, 20 square meters of Wattway will be able to generate enough energy for a house, and one kilometer of road would provide enough energy for a city of 5,000 inhabitants, and according to Herve Le Bouc, it is enough for this technology to include a third of French roads to achieve the country Complete energy sufficiency.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p>