We value your privacy

We use cookies to enhance your browsing experience, serve personalized ads or content, and analyze our traffic. By clicking "Accept All", you consent to our use of cookies.

Customize Consent Preferences

We use cookies to help you navigate efficiently and perform certain functions. You will find detailed information about all cookies under each consent category below.

The cookies that are categorized as "Necessary" are stored on your browser as they are essential for enabling the basic functionalities of the site. ... 

Always Active

Necessary cookies are required to enable the basic features of this site, such as providing secure log-in or adjusting your consent preferences. These cookies do not store any personally identifiable data.

No cookies to display.

Functional cookies help perform certain functionalities like sharing the content of the website on social media platforms, collecting feedback, and other third-party features.

No cookies to display.

Analytical cookies are used to understand how visitors interact with the website. These cookies help provide information on metrics such as the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc.

No cookies to display.

Performance cookies are used to understand and analyze the key performance indexes of the website which helps in delivering a better user experience for the visitors.

No cookies to display.

Advertisement cookies are used to provide visitors with customized advertisements based on the pages you visited previously and to analyze the effectiveness of the ad campaigns.

No cookies to display.

Oil & Gas, Crude Oil, Gas, Petrol, Exploration, Refinery, Upstream, Oil Price, LPG & Solar

Follow us
Electric Cars Videos

Lightyear One — The electric car that charges itself with sunlight

by

Lightyear’s patent portfolio covers innovations for an efficient powertrain, high yield solar roof and optimized thermal management system. The Lightyear One will have a range of 440 miles and will be able to recharge from its own solar roof up to 80% of the annual yield for an average driver in San Francisco.

The company, based at the Automotive Campus in the Brainport Eindhoven region, has been active since November 2016. In the summer of 2019, the Lightyear One was announced worldwide, and the company is now gearing up towards the first customer deliveries at the end of 2021.

Exterior / Performance
Range: 725 km (WLTP)

Drive: All 4 independently controlled., Advanced torque vectoring.

Energy use: 83 Wh/km (WLTP) – excluding HVAC

Acceleration : 0 – 100 km/h in less than 10 seconds

Dimensions (L x W x H) : 5057 x 1898 x 1426 mm

Charging speeds (Amount of range in 1 hour charging)

Solar 12 km
3.7 kW at 230v 35 km
22 kW (Public) 209 km
60 kW (Fast charging) 570 km

Information Source: Lightyear One ..–>

Share:
0
Tags:
a
Cool
0
a
Cool
0
a
Dislike
0
Geeky
0
a
Like
0
a
Like
0
a
LOL
0
a
Love
0
a
Love
0
a
NSFW
0
oilandgaspress
0
OMG
0
a
WTF
0
#FOLLOW US ON INSTAGRAM