How much solar driving can someone really do with this production design of the Lightyear 0? Is it enough to keep EVs simple for both drivers and for the grid?
Earlier this month, we missed an interesting announcement by Lightyear, a company building solar cars. But luckily, we can still find footage of the announcement on YouTube, so anybody who missed it can still see the event. Plus, there’s now a video out with a test drive of the vehicle, so we can all get an even better look at the vehicle!Like many EVs, the Lightyear 0 has its roots in solar car racing.
So, like Aptera, Lightyear definitely had an engineering challenge. The top of a car can only make so much energy, but Lightyear thought it was worth it because EVs typically add some complexity to our lives and make the infrastructure challenging. By taking the heat off of the grid and our home’s power supply, it could end up being a great thing, especially when we’re dealing with climate change and the rollout of EV charging and EVs is still going too slow to get us there by 2040.
On a 60 kWh battery charge, the validation prototype was able to go 710 km . This is almost 200 miles more than the Chevy Bolt EV goes, and on slightly less battery. So, clearly they had come up with enough efficiency to help make up for the limitations of vehicle-mounted solar power. But, that was a prototype 18 months ago. The final car is supposed to get around 300 miles per day, maximum, using a combination of Level 1 charging and the car’s solar panels.
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