It will travel up to 730 kilometers on a sunny day. With a battery with a capacity of 60 kilowatt hours, however, it can cover 600 kilometers even at night. He draws energy from his own solar power plant, which he drives on the roof. After folding, the folding machine offers an area of up to 17.5 square meters, which corresponds to photovoltaics, which, according to the AP agency, can be afforded by a roughly ordinary house.
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A few kilometers after the start came problems
The world’s first sun-driven motorhome is the work of 22 students from the Netherlands. The team known as Solar Team Eindhoven named the prototype for two people Stella Vita and originally wanted to drive it from home Eindhoven to the south of Spain about 3000 kilometers.
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Right from the start, however, the mobile solar house had problems with the propulsion system. He therefore had to travel by car from Eindhoven to Brussels and now to Paris. In the heart of France, Dutch students are now testing him to continue the shortened tour of Europe on his own.
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“We just want to drive a few kilometers here to make sure that these small problems don’t happen again when we only need five kilometers on the road. So we just want to test it, “explains Laura Van Houtum, project manager for a trip to Europe.
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Flies are flying. Students believe that the car will help solve the climate crisis
Dutch students say their solar-powered mobile home is part of a plan to tackle the climate crisis with renewables. They want to pass the final tests in Paris as soon as possible so that Stella Vita can finally set off.
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We want to make sure that you can really drive the car on the road, because it’s legal, but we haven’t driven it yet.
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“We want to make sure that you can really drive the car on the road, because it’s legal, but we haven’t driven it yet. And we hope to see results in a few months, “adds 22-year-old Laura.
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As List News has previously written, more companies have tried and are still striving to develop a fully self-contained solar-powered electric vehicle. Last year’s or the year before last, however, did not reach as far as the Dutch with Stella Vita. For example, the Paradigm from the California company Aptera had a range of only 72 kilometers and the Prius PHV from Toyota only 56 kilometers.
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According to a study by the non-profit organization AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety, the average American travels about 47 kilometers a day.
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