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Efficiency has been taken into consideration when designing the first solar car, Lightyear 0.
Curved solar panels will be integrated onto the Lightyear 0's roof, hood, and trunk to recharge the electric battery while it is in transit or parked.
0 that we are selling and obviously the lightyear 0 that we are selling now, for 250,000 euros, is clearly not for everyone. the way to view this, this first car is really a technology demonstrator. we're building it in a very limited series, and this is the main reason why this first car is so expensive. so, the key is in scaling up. that's what we've planned on the roadmap for 2025. we plan to look launch the lightyear 2 with similar specs, in terms of efficiency and range and how far you can go and the solar panel. but that one is going to have a starting price of 30,000 euros. we also have...
How practical the car is and how much external energy you still need from the grid. so we took a year to design and build stella, the world's first solar—powered family car and raced it 3,000 kilometres through the desert of australia, and that set us up for the next adventure, for lightyear, so a few years later after we finished our studies and we took the car all over the world and we had hoped to inspire the industry, to show that it is possible to build a car that drives only on the power of the sun and is efficient and lightweight, but it didn't really happen so at some point we figure...