Lightyear ‘One’ solar-electric car ranges 710 km

Lightyear a solar electric vehicle maker has recently tested its Lightyear One prototype car which can provide a range of 710 km on a single battery charge. One prototype car is the world’s first long-range solar electric vehicle completed the 441 miles (710 km) in a test drive with a single battery charge of 60 kWh.Let us read more about Lightyear ‘One’ solar-electric car ranges 710 km. 

The company in a press release said that this full cycle driving test, conducted on a test track in Germany and operates on the lowest emissions, the lowest charging frequency, and 7,000 to 20,000 kilometres of free, effortless, and clean solar range, per annum.

at the Aldenhoven Testing Center in Germany, to complete a drive cycle at a speed of 53 miles per hour on a single battery charge of 60 kWh.The integral test ranged from validating the yield of the solar panels, the battery performance, the energy consumption of the cooling system, all the way to the functioning of the in-wheel motors and the software operating the solar car.

This test is conducted to verify and validate all the assumptions of the vehicle’s performance and the other tests such as crash tests and an official WLTP drive cycle test will be done in the coming days.

Lex Hoefsloot, CEO and co-founder of Lightyear says “After four years of hard work and in-house development, this is a very important engineering and technological milestone. It validates the performance of our patented technology and truly shows that we are able to deliver on our promise to introduce the most efficient electric vehicle. This prototype has over 440 miles of range with an energy consumption of only 137 Wh/Mile at 53 miles an hour. Even the most efficient electric cars in the market today consume around 50% more energy at this relatively low speed.”

“This milestone is a great confirmation of the scalability of our business model. We are confident that in the coming months, we will be able to reach a similar level of energy consumption at highway speed. Lowering the energy consumption per mile of an EV means that you can provide a lot of range on a small battery. Because batteries are the most expensive part of an EV, you can lower the purchase price of the car and achieve affordable electric cars with a lot of range that doesn’t need a lot of charging. Low-energy consuming cars can also benefit a lot more from adding solar cells to the car and gain about 45 miles of charge on a sunny day” he added.

Lightyear aims to make clean mobility that is available to everyone and the solar concept car will be game-changing to clean mobility. The company said that it will go into production in the first half of 2022 and it wants to address the mass market starting from 2024.

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