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The Lightyear O solar car: the start of small-scale production.
The Lightyear company from the Netherlands has done it after all! It has developed and brought to production — albeit small-scale — its first electric car with solar panels.
The members of the Solar Team from Eindhoven were at the origin of this startup.
They regularly participated (and won three times) in the Bridgestone World Solar Challenge solar-powered electric car competition.
And in 2016 they decided to use their experience to create a civilian car capable of being charged by the sun.
The first prototype, called Lightyear One, was presented in the summer of 2019, and then it was announced that production of commercial cars would begin in two years.
It was not possible to keep to the schedule because of the pandemic and the lack of financing, but the problems were eventually overcome.