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With the development of fuel vehicles to new energy vehicles, there is a gradual emergence of pure electric cars, hydrogen electric cars, add-on cars, etc., and the types are becoming more and more diversified. And just in recent times, the Dutch car company Lightyear has announced a new model, using solar energy as the energy source of the solar car Lightyear 0 (picture), the car has been unveiled in Europe. This new energy car appeared, is not instantly feel the front of the car are lame. Perhaps for this car suddenly appeared in your field of vision will feel surprised, but for the Dutch car company Lightyear is not so, they are after six years of development, Lightyear 0 can only be ordered before the first delivery in the fall of this year.

About Lightyear, Inc.

Lightyear, an international team of 90 engineers including three-time winners of the World SolarChallenge, experienced engineers (18 Lightyear, from the aerospace, motorsports and automotive industries (e.g. ASML, Tesla, Ferrari and Inalfa) and alumni of the Eindhoven University of Technology, developed the world's first self-charging commercial electric solar car: the Lightyear One. alumni from the aerospace and motorsport industries (e.g. ASML, Tesla, Ferrari and Inalfa) and the Eindhoven University of Science and Technology (ETSU), has developed the world's first self-charging commercial electric solar car: the Lightyear One. The Lightyear One is an upcoming all-solar electric car. Announced on 25 June 2019, production is scheduled to begin in 2021 with a starting price of €149,000 (including taxes), or approximately $170,000 USD. In September 2021, Lightyear reportedly raised $110 million to put the vehicle into production and in 2022 delivered the first vehicles. This shows the depth of Lightyear's background in researching solar energy.

Lightyear 0

See Lightyear 0's first glance even just pictures have a strong sense of the future, especially like that kind of movie inside the future car, the front face using closed grille to highlight the identity of new energy vehicles, the left and right sides have sharp headlights, grille can be luminous in the center of the badge, heterochromatic hood with smoked front lip components, and the use of external cameras instead of external mirrors, the whole strong technological atmosphere.

Interior Lightyear 0 echoed it do solar energy new energy for the sake of environmental protection of the original intention, the use of a large number of plant leather and recycled PET bottles made of recycled fabric materials, the car is equipped with a full LCD dashboard and a large size floating center screen, large size LCD dashboard can be said to be a sense of technology must. At the same time, the rearview mirror monitor connected to the outside camera, the sense of technology I'm tired of saying, the whole car from the future traveled here.

Battery is 5 square meters of hyperbolic panels, the use of silicon materials, the use of photovoltaic accordingly, in the sun's irradiation can be directly generated electricity, the maximum trip of about 388 miles, about one hour can be fully charged, the battery life of 25 years. Power official data is 170 horsepower, zero hundred acceleration data for about 10 seconds, indeed power is a little less powerful, and now have no matter whether it is a new energy vehicle or fuel car has a certain distance. At present, the Lightyear 0 will be put into production in the fall of this year, is expected to open in November delivery, in August will open in Europe test drive activities. Priced at about $226,000, it will be limited to 946 units, but the price is a bit high, but its audience is probably also the target consumers who dare to try and have a good budget.

Endurance Conversion

In addition, when it comes to the solar car this emerging thing, we will certainly feel new, and even inevitably issued a question, if the rainy day car can not drive? In fact, this car is not completely solar energy-driven vehicles, but a hybrid model, just the roof has solar panels, can be converted into electricity, charging the car. The solar energy has a range of about 70 kilometers and the EV range is 625 kilometers. That is to say that the Lightyear 0's solar energy is an auxiliary charging role, just like a solar rechargeable battery, you can still charge him directly, but you can also put it in a place where there is sunshine to charge, and if it is in a consistently cloudy state, you can directly charge it and convert it into a traditional EV vehicle. For the average home consumer, then, buying a Lightyear 0 using only the 70 kilometers of range provided by solar charging is sufficient. If it's always sunny, driving for an hour will give you another 12 kilometers of range, which will help to solve the range anxiety to a certain extent.