Route 66 is famous enough for being the longest highway in the country with more than two thousand miles on it. The singers have made sure that people getting their “kicks on route 66” enjoy the music as well as the drive. Now scientific researchers have come up with another way to make the route famous.

Apparently an Idaho-based company called Roadway Solar and the Missouri Department of transportation have crowd funded a $2.25 million project to cover the road with solar panels that can store energy from the sun. The project called “Road to Tomorrow” will have interactive solar panels which will allow electric vehicles to charge themselves as they run on the road.

The road will also have embedded LED lights which can be controlled by a remote operator based on the state of traffic on the road. The best part is that the roads will not need to be repainted or repaved as often as they are now, and maintenance of the solar panels is all that will be required.

This is a science project that aims to bring the historic road into the future of travel. Needless to say if the transportation system of electric vehicles and recharging roads with solar panels takes off successfully it will totally redefine the future of road transport!