If you needed the sun to power a car, what if you lived close to an electric vehicle charging station?
That is not what is happening with the Lightyear 0 EV. Lightyear will make its first prototype car by the end of the year. If you want to get one of the 946 planned units at launch, you will have to pay $263,000USD. If you do, you will have a sleek, futuristic-looking EV that can get roughly 44 miles of range.
Ideally you'd get more sun than that. Credit: Lightyear
The company says someone could theoretically drive one of these cars for months without going to a charging station if they lived in the right environment with lots of sun. It only has a top speed of 100mph, so you won't be going down the freeway in it, but at least you can feel good about yourself for driving a vegan car.
Lightyear 0 isn't the only solar-powered EV we've seen. The solar panels on the roof of the Mercedes-Benz Vision EQXX concept only add 15 miles to the car's range. Lightyear has a Mercedes-Benz lead.
The car has to make it to the peoples's driveway first. By the end of the year, we will know more about the Lightyear 0.
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