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The Lightyear company claims the 782 solar cells across the car can add 70 km (43.5 miles) of range per day during summer. [6] [7] The aerodynamics of the vehicle were stated to produce a record-low drag coefficient of Cd=0.175. The car is all-wheel drive, with four in-wheel electric hub motors powered by a low-mounted battery. [8]
The SINAG (Tagalog for sun ray), based in De La Salle University in the Philippines, is the first Philippine solar-powered race car and the first entry of the Philippines to the World Solar Challenge. The solar car was inaugurated on January 27, 2007, at NBC Tent, Fort Bonifacio, Taguig. [1]
The 5-seater solar car Lightyear One is built by the company Lightyear, [19] whose founder and CEO Lex Hoefsloot has already won the World Solar Challenge several times, e.g. in 2013 with the car "Stella" (Solar Team Eindhoven, Technical University Eindhoven). [20] The car was scheduled to go into production in 2021. [21]
Dutch university students recently embarked on a European road trip in the world’s first solar-powered mobile home.
Nuna7 is a solar-powered racing car in the Nuna series built by the Dutch Nuon Solar Team. The team finished first with Nuna7 at the World Solar Challenge 2013, a race of 3000 km through the outback of Australia. The Nuon Solar Team consisted of 16 students of Delft University of Technology.
The Squad Solar is a neighborhood electric vehicle or microcar that has a solar panel on top to make it a solar car. The vehicle can also be plugged into a regular outlet to be powered by the grid . The vehicle is manufactured by Squad Mobility BV based in the Netherlands which was founded by Robert Hoevers and Chris Klok that previously worked ...
The first solar "cars" were actually tricycles or Quadracycles built with bicycle technology. These were called solarmobiles at the first solar race, the Tour de Sol in Switzerland in 1985. With 72 participants, half used solar power exclusively while the other half used solar-human-powered hybrids.
ADELAIDE, Australia - Dutch racing team Nuon crossed the finish line first on Thursday to win the 2015 Bridgestone World Solar Challenge and their sixth victory in the solar-powered car race.