Solar-assisted garment

A solar-assisted glove, comprising:

• a glove body having fingers, a rear surface, front surface and interior space for placing a hand therein,
• a protective collar for encircling a wearer's wrist at a bottom of the glove body and terminating in a securable release flap on an underside of the wrist below the front surface of the glove body,
• a solar panel on the rear surface collecting incident solar rays and generating an electrical current in response thereto,
• a heating element provided in the interior space of the glove body and connected to a printed circuit board (PCB), wherein the heating element is in electrical communication with the solar panel and PCB so that as the solar panel generates electrical current the heating element generates heat within the interior space,
• a rechargeable electrical storage means in electrical communication with the solar panel, connected to the PCB and kept on a trickle discharge while storing energy from the solar panel, so as to provide electric current to the heating element,
• a USB device in electrical communication with the electrical storage means and extending below the glove body front surface for charging the electrical storage means using one or more of a laptop, PC, and AC charger adaptor to an AC mains, and
• a DC charging adapter plug adjacent the USB device for permitting charging of the electrical storage means via connection to a secondary DC/DC universal adapter that in turn is connected to a DC power source.