The hood and roof of the Lightyear 2 electric car are covered with solar panels. In clear weather, they provide a power reserve of up to 70 km per day.
The new Lightyear 2 was announced at CES in Las Vegas. The second model of the Dutch startup should come out in 2025 and will cost less than 40,000 euros in the basic version. By the way reported on the official website of the company.
Lightyear specializes in solar-powered electric cars. Their first production model Light year one is already on sale, but it turned out to be too expensive: it costs from 250,000 euros. Therefore, it will be released in a limited series of 946 cars, and they set out to create a more affordable electric car.
The first teasers show that the new Lightyear 2 is a D-class liftback with an aerodynamic design. The sloping roof, aerodynamically optimized sidewalls and wheels with special hub caps made it possible to achieve a record drag coefficient of 0.175.
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The roof and hood of the Lightyear 2 are covered in solar panels. On a clear day, they provide up to 70km of power reserve. In urban use, this is more than sufficient for everyday driving, which means that the battery cannot be recharged.
The recharge will have to be used in gloomy weather conditions or on long journeys. In this case, the range will be 800 km.
Previously Focus reported that in Ukraine appeared new electric car from Geely and Volvo with a power reserve of 700 km.
