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Ultra—strong carbon—fibre frame, although that is important to the story, and it's not the aerodynamic design that makes it look like a future car from the 1950s, although that is important, too. no, look closer at that shiny finish, and you'll see that it's not paint. the entire thing is covered in solar panels, solar panels on the bonnet, solar panels on the roof, solar panels instead of a back window. yes, this is a solar—powered car, and they call it lightyear one. the first production model will be going on sale this summer. its five square metres of solar panels come in narrow sect...

0k, and now pull it down a little bit. 0k, pull it down a bit. i'm heading for the big waves. whoa! that was amazing! good work! i barely felt those. a very different experience to our producer's boat. muffled chatter. it's a leader amongst its electric peers, but i do wonder if prices — starting from around $300,000 — might stall adoption, especially when similar—sized motorboats can still travel several times further and go around ten knots faster. of course, there's going to be petrol—powered boats for quite some time, but, i mean, once you try this kind of experience, it's quite ea...

Of sunlight will only provide about 45 miles of that. the rest still has to come from plugging it in. however, 45 miles might be enough to get you to work and back. you can fast—charge it using a normal charger, but the solar panel will recharge your commute every day. so basically when you put it outside of your office space, then it recharges itself, and when you get back, the car is full again. and basically that happens every day. in the summer in the netherlands, you wouldn't have to charge for months if you do just your commute. really. i'm from the uk, i know what you're talking about...

Still powerful. in four seconds, we will be up well above 30 knots, so everyone needs to hold on. is everyone ready? yes. give her everything you got. just full throttle. laughter. yep, i'm flooring it. it's similar to candela in cost and top speed, but can cruise slowly for double the time. as it sails, the vessel collects 150 data points each second. everything is shared back to h0 to optimise performance, but with private info being beamed straight from my wrist, i was curious about security. technically, you can hack pentagon, right? so you can probably hack our boat, if you're that good, ...

Lex is a bit of a world leader, too. in 2012, he co—founded the team that went on to win the solar challenge cruiser race across the australian outback four times in a row. unsurprisingly, the design of lightyear one is somewhat more conventional. now, solar cells are getting better and better at turning sunlight into electricity, but lex's company is more focused on making what energy it can harvest go further. the result will be the most energy—efficient five—seater on the market when it launches, with a ruthlessly aerodynamic design weighing about half a tesla model s, and which trade...