Home News Car Tech (Image credit: Jeremy Kaplan / Future) Like pixies and pegasus, the idea of a solar-powered car is dreamy and perfect. Who wouldn’t want a car powered by the sun? Who doesn’t want to ditch the lines and bills at the gas station? This car can go up to 450 miles on a single charge, with solar panels covering five square meters of roof that can recover up to 12 km of range every hour. This car has four electric motors! This car … sounds almost too good to be true, doesn’t it? The first-generation Lightyear 0 (go figure: the website is called lightyear.one) started production for the European market in December of 2022, the company claims, although video of the “production line” looks more like someone’s garage than a factory floor. (The company says the factory that makes A Class Mercedes will ultimately do the production.) Now, at CES 2023, the company has unveiled the next-generation Lightyear 2 — and no, we’re not sure what happened to version 1 either.”All the learnings — and those are a lot — from Lightyear 0 we’re applying to Lightyear 2,” Alexandre Hoefsloot, CEO and Co-Founder of Lightyear, told me. But it’s early days, and it takes a while to make a new car, much l… Click below to read the full story from TechRadar
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