Toyota has not been early enough into the EV race, but for a brief time, it led the rankings on hybrids before it realized it would have to play catch up on batteries and has had to contract for batteries for the next era of car transport. But now that the largest car company in the world has awakened to the problem, it may have embraced the perfect strategy in trying to bring back to life an idea that has been universally rejected – using onboard solar to power a car. It is neither new, nor Earth shattering as an idea, but companies have recently begun taking a second look – for Toyota is it the long term fear of…