Self-Charging Electric Car | 1000 Miles of Extra Solar Range per Month
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- čas přidán 26. 06. 2019
- Representing Self-Charging Solar Powered Electric Car by Lightyear Company, called The Lightyear One.
The roof and hood of the car consists of five square meters of integrated solar cells within safety glass.
The solar cells provide 20% more energy than traditional ones and unlike them, these cells function independently, which means even if a part of the roof or hood is in shadow, the other cells continue to efficiently collect solar energy.
They can charge the electric car at a rate of 7 miles per hour and provide 31-43 miles daily range.
This could result in producing up to 12,000 miles worth of energy per year or 1000 miles per month.
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What a game changer all right, I'll just go sell my house and move my family into one of these.
Exactly what I am thinking 😂
Better idea, convert old large van to EV and become camper van with solar panel on top of the roof.
There are cars that costs millions of dollars and can't do half of what this car can do. I say it's dirt cheap considering it's literally the car of the future that could save our planet. And sell our houses if we should to support this company from getting swallowed up by big oil companies terrified by its innovation.
Dirt cheap? Okay then, the cars are on you. When are you going to order us all one?
When mass produced this car is the same price as a normal electric car.This model will be handbuild and in low numbers.That explains the price.Next models will be much cheaper.
If you truly want to be a 'Game Changer' then you'll have to make the car affordable to the masses. You know, the way Henry Ford did. Until you can put one of these into the garage of the 'Average' working man you really haven't changed anything.
This is cheap. Sports cars out there in the range of hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars can't do half of what this car can do. Also it's their first car, it's meant to gather them capital. People should support them as best as we could or they'll go under and disappear within a year.
Economics of scale do not apply to EV yet. The battery technology is too new and prices are too high. As new battery technology is developed, the prices will fall. Samsung has patented a Graphene ball battery and will soon come to market. It can charge in 15~20 minutes from zero. Cost will be VERY high. Development costs I would guess are near or exceed billions US Dollar. No other company has announced a Graphene battery which will be a game changer. However, it is unknown if Samsung will have enough capacity to build batteries for cars and power stations in addition to the phones they make.
You'd want to avoid putting this car in a garage, keep on the drive to get maximum daylight charging.
Very well said. But .... it's a good start. With time it should get more affordable
Yet one more potential game-changer. Other companies would be mad not to follow suit. Free energy for cars is here now. Hope they can make mass production vehicles soon, cos everyone will want it.
Technically you could get the same effect from solar panels on your roof. But I understand the no plug idea. I kinda don't understand charging stations cause wouldn't 8 hours a night typically be enough?
Other than for long distant driving.
@@Skinnymarks These cars still use a battery pack and can be charged by cable. The solar panels on the car is a gimmick, it charges the battery pack at very slow speeds, and the car needs to be exposed to intense sun light
@@rwyo83 Not intense sun light. The solar challange car was energy positive year round by weather in the Netherlands (not a very sunny country).
Spectacular achievement! Even if it doesn't have the best Off The Line acceleration or if running accessories like lights, heat or AC run the batteries down prematurely, just having the capability of putting some energy back into the car while it's sitting on the parking lot is a Sci-Fi sort of accessory. And you can still plug it in to charge it if you need to.
Its the best idea. I think all electric cars should use SOLAR cells.
Finally! Let the vehicle solar race begin!
Each single cell block making it's own power unaffected by the other ones in shadow is really remarkable, innovative and efficient design.
EVs with various parked features such as recording video, alarm, regulating battery/cabin temperature, GPS tracking and 3G cellphone connections would benefit from solar panels when parked.
Keep making it better, inspire other companies to make better and cheaper electric cars
A small German company is currently designing a compact car with partial solar charging. They are using several components of the BMW i3 and aiming at prices of under 30 k $. And they are more modest (and probably honest) about the extra mileage to be gained by solar.
They claim it might theoretically bring around 30 kms on an ideal day (sunny and cloudless day in mid summer with the car parked in the baking sun) - so nobody can sensibly expect more than, say, 2500 km in a normal year.
Which is perfectly fine and compensates the loss of charge EV batteries have over time. At least, if you park the car outside, you can be sure you won't have a dead battery after a few weeks of not driving.
this car is a lot bigger with a lot better solar panels. so i think they will make that range. will be interesting to see how quickly the cost will drop
a game changer is my diy ebike that cost me 500 to build, charge it with 2 100w solar panels (its sunny all year long over here) , and travel at 80km/h for 40-50km ( enough to travel to my work and back FOR FREE)
If electric cars were around for 100 of years and the gas engine followed with a 2 minute fill up and a 500 mile range, People would freak out and dump their electric cars.
Awesome use of common sense. Wish you the best of success and recognition.
Wow, added to my research library
it's about time a company did this. it's pretty obvious that solar and Electric cars go together.
Congratulations everyone involved in the making of this car this is something that we have needed. It's too bad we could not have a car like this before we started polluting the air and water and food supply on our planet. Hopefully you have the strength to fight the oil gurus and the rich on our planet to make this a complete and total reality. You have gotten rid of the tailpipe and the carcinogens that were pumping into our air they have caused cancer and killed millions of people. You have my complete support let me know where I can fit in and I will help you boost your product here in America. Thank you and God bless you all
"Spray on" PV materials are coming and could be used on all the surfaces of e-vehicles to supplement plug-in charging. That would really be a game changer as too much of our recharging energy is still coming from coal power generation.
I wouldn't expect them to be nearly as efficient as "traditional" solar cells though.
Lets wish them luck.
I would buy one if I could.
An engineer that designs the "right" thing.
So well done.
Definitely a great idea. All electric vehicles should have solar cells on the roof and hood.
Splendid car of future solar cells mounted on electric cars. Wow self charging while in the parking is a game changer. The prices must be brought down due to pollution free environment a future need a must. Keep up we love to see more videos from you.
Love the idea, would like to see more of this way of thinking
I thought of it 20 years ago. It’s no big deal on this example . The entire body needs to be PV , then you have a winner
finally, a worthy opponent to tesla just cost reduction required
What a great innovation in sunny countries such as Australia or Israel.
Great news.
Thank you 🙏.
We can travel the world with this car without tickets 😎👌
This is the car I've been waiting for...
Yes ,surely Lightyear one will influence other companies to deploy solar cell .It will really revolutionise the ev industry.This is also need of the future .So great work and initiative by Lightyear ,just they should make sure that their cars are available to most common personnel in the world .If they get successful ,then they will bang the future for sure.
I am pretty sure a car like that would be amazing to be used in sunny countries. Like UAE
A great idea. Mass production will reduce the price, as they said.
Nice car invention.
Pricey!!! Tesla already looked into for having panels on the car, but it was not feasible. They are better off giving more battery power for half the price of car.
I built myself a solar bike, but I can’t wait for solar EVs to become more mainstream.
Brilliant awesome launch as quickly as possible
Absolutely the right way to go 🙌👍
At 170k you clientele must live in Hollywood CA.
Future cars making life easier and travel longer for all of us
That's an awesome name for a solar car
Definitely the way to go.
I am very excited about this. I always wondered when will there be sufficient charging stations for EVs. But this will be a game changer. Hope they come up with SUVs for tall men like me
Looks a bit like the older Citreons designed by aeronautical engineers
During hot summer time as very hot car is parked. As of ECO mode air conditioner stays on. When you'll get into your cooler car in 100+ degrees days. The Bottom Line: No more accidental leave your small children in your hot car ever again.
Great car.
Happy to see game changer vehicle. Hope price will come down as it's produces more vehicle.
Excellent
Well done keep it up. Peter.
It's just a matter of time, good work and of course money!
Nice move to use every bit of what u have got.EV with a self charging capacity. NEXT GENERATION VEHICLE NOW ON ROADS.
this is the good concept for electric cars
I hope so this is my idea for several years. I have the 2019
Nissan Leaf 🍁 Plus
Awesome
great concept guys...beautiful looking car ....keep working on the price
I just used to think Tesla was wow wow but now there's lots of new ones on the market but this is something else solar panels and cars that sounds great the best me proven to work successfully I think other manufacturers will put solar panels on a car straight away but it's the whole package this car looks great sounds great and it's got a good range good on them top marks well done
I hope they all get going with this kind of solar-powered car.
With currently available panels u can turn on wide screen wiper... So if they have got improved by 20%, an AC blower can be operated. That is what solar for cars can do.
For 10 years people have been telling me solar powered car won't be possible due to the weight of the panels. Now it's here. This tech is going to get better and better. Charging stations will be obsolete. That's my prediction. And it'll be decades, not hundreds of years.
Thanks
Absolutely!
perfect ....
I drive an EV and this would really make use amazing!
Where do you charge it?
Another good one, which I can't afford.
Solar should be on your home facing the Sun , Normally South in the USA. Then if you make extra it goes into the GRID. You can have a big enough system to run your home and car like I do with a 4 kW system.
In an accident the glass panels could be a problem. You can park in the shade if it's on your home, not if it's on your car.
The price of EV’s has to drop considerably before there is a bigger uptake if them. $25K is out of the range of most buyers let alone $170K. It is though a step in the right direction and hopefully as more manufacturers produce EV’s the prices will drop.
Yes it should be. Solar system will save electricity and need no fuel. No long waiting to charge the car. Always automatically charged.
If Tesla would install solar panels on their Model S or Model 3 it would have better price and performance.
But still, very good effort from young team that won many competitions of Solar cars.
Ok , I'll help"you talked me into It!
Switching batteries!
Is Faster!
Tesla got all the tech and must integrate solar into their cars
Yes, Tesla do have technology for it and no, not to many people like that design. However, you asking us to parking our expensive car under the sun with all that heat is not a good idea for the car paint and interior leather sit and dashboard etc.
Vodoo 3dx Definitely a quandary unless reducing your carbon footprint is the irreducible priority.
$170K ? Wow, ouch I owe much less on my house ... too bad they can't come up with a version with like range and stay within the $30k range, I'd love to see that for sure
Use of Solar energy to charge electric cars would revolutionize the car industry. Solar energy to run the. Car air condtioning and lighting would be an added feather in the cap.Low cost high efficiency solar cells would reduce the cost,making it affordable.
Ashok Kumbla - Mumbai India
I think all car manufacturers should do this. And I think they should sell kits to use solar at home to charge cars. Where are the electric trucks?
Absolutely
I wonder if the latest/cheapest electric motors are incorporated in Lightyears car? The use of the latest, low cost, super-efficient electric motor, should help in lowering the cost part of the equation.
450 miles is far more than I care to drive in a day. But brings it out of any naysayers range rebuttal. Even if its solar recharging rate were only 1/10th of what they project that would be phenomenal. Hopefully a more for the masses price tag will be forthcoming.
I'm calling Uber. Let someone else save the planet.
Competition stimulates change.
Simply put, most people reacting to this video do not know anything about solar energy. That car, from the mouth of its creator is just a prototype. He even said that most people buying the car are just donators to their projects, they don't really plan to drive the car. The car is nothing short of an aluminium toy car and the tiny energy generated by the panels will never balanced the cost of production. I'm even quite skeptical that they will ever achieved NCap Safety Rating or EU Certification...
An electric car must recharge itself from sun as much as possible , is common sense
not really when you think about it. solar panels on cars are less efficient and cost more than rooftop solar it makes more sense to have solar panels at fixed locations putting power into the grid then just charge the car off the same grid than it does for the car to carry its own panels
@@riddellriddell i am thinking at paint that act like solar panel
@@dragossorin85 the holy grail of solar panels. I know blue scope steel have been looking into that for decades
@@riddellriddell didnt you hear him say that the panels on that car are 20% more efficient then normal solar pannels. jesus christ, watch the video before you hate.
@@trevorantram4833 solar panels on a car will always be less efficient than the same solar panels in a static setup. Car solar panels are not angled directly at the sun, are often blocked by bridges, buildings or trees and require extra thick protective layers and electronics all these things reduce their efficiency compared to a static setup.
There's something fishy with this video. 350 miles added for one hour at 60kW ? That's 5.8 miles/kWh, which is unheard of unless you're driving at 30 mph on a flat surface with no wind. The video also claims a 450 mile range. At 5.8 miles/kWh, this equates to a 77 kWh battery....not a small battery as the video claims.
Add some small wind turbines (to utilize the frontal wind resistance/friction) in the front (between the headlamps), and this will my favorite car to buy next!
I drew a picture of an electric car that has all wheel drive with 6 motors that can work as generators (2 in the differential shaft, 4 in the wheels) big amount of battery power, solar panels, and best of all, electric boost(works like nitrous but for electric cars) so you can go very fast. You could get infinite range with this car. It could power a house. If you want to power your neighborhood, you can use a treadmill for cars that can also be an even more powerful generator and combine it with the EV. The electric car I drew is named: ROBOT-3 FRANKENSTEIN.
It's great invention but how be the oil lovers get controlled and will the OIC allow it,thanks.
Maybe,.... Only in California otherwise i'ts juste a bonus for the "formidable" real performance of this amazing car.
Good news
the one and only thing i like about this car is 4 independent moter's in the wheel's.
They should try using hemp for the body. Going back to Henry Ford in the 1930's, he built a hemp car claiming it was 10 times stronger than steel and 30%(?) less weight. (I can't remember the exact percentage, but it was much lighter than steel and 10x stronger).
Manufacturers please put in a rear window. You can cover the doors with solar cells. It’s worth the extra daylight inside the car.
There are certain powerful groups who have been interfering in invention of vehicles driven without OIL,I saw a video of a Mexican engineer who has produced a hydrogen driven car but he was so scared to disclose it.
What is the potential refinement? Could carbon fiber come down in price and replace more elements of the car? Could 3D printing make lighter weight components?
I must know these things.
The fact that this is even possible now means 10 years down the road may be incredibly more insane than I thought
Yes i think so.
I would prefer a normal electric like Nissan leaf instead of this extraordinary 170k invention. It will get success maybe after 15 years when the price reduce but I think after 15 years we will get battery in very cheap price with 15 mins charging like sodium ion batteries.or some new invention in the field of batteries.
Do they use Perovskite solar cells?
The number of EVs on the road is decreasing in relative numbers. The total number of cars increases by 2% yearly. That means that percentvise we have fewer EVs every year. However as pointed out, EV production is increasing rapidly, so in 20 years, at current growth, they should be on par and be able to gain market share from combustion cars, but current EV production is 0.0005 of what is needed.
Why can't you put alternator on it ?
Need to bring the price down to 30 to 40k, the it will be a market leader
Add motion and heat generators to suck up more power.
Can't it be charged too with the wind and movement of the wheels.
Will there be any subsidy for common man?
I have little technical knowledge regarding solar, but I have friends who work in the solar industry (big solar plants in California). These experts are skeptical that such a vehicle could produce the results being claimed. Until an actual car is built, tested and documented ... skepticism seems appropriate.
price will come down for more buyers when?
0-60mph in 30 seconds
For all those with bad backs, bad knees, when will someone introduce a small pickup? So we’re not sitting on the ground and having to climb out with excruciating pains to exit the electric vehicle.