Lightyear’s solar car prototype drives over 440 miles on a single battery charge

The Lightyear One is the world’s first long-range solar electric vehicle; the prototype drove over 440 miles on a single battery charge of 60 kWh. Lightyear achieves an important technology milestone by demonstrating long-range performance at test track. ...

Lightyear Solar Car will come before end of year

The Lightyear solar car, an electric saloon packed with solar panels built into its body, will go into production before the end of the year. The company has just completed a successful funding round of $48 million, which will help bring the first small series of units to production ...

Stella Vie, the electric solar car

A group of students from the University of Technology in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, have clear that the future of E-Mobility will be the electro-solar car, as it does not need a large infrastructure of battery recharging stations. It is no longer a dream, alone, as they demonstrate with their ...