Lightyear One: a Solar-Powered Vehicle

Lightyear One: a Solar-Powered Vehicle
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We love our world that we will keep pursuing on innovations to keep our world sustainable. Electric Vehicle (EV) has already reached large awareness throughout the world with their goodness compared to Internal Combustion Engine (ICE) Vehicle in terms of features, prices, running cost, performances and the impact to the environment and the society. 

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EV does removing the emissions when travelling, which make them better than ICE. However, the EV has not yet solved the problem of not completely stop reliance on coal plants as the major source of energy. Other than that, not every home are equipped with a solar system to power their EV sustainably and economically.
 
But now, Lightyear, the company have built a better innovation that can less rely on the grid power and at the same time make the product accessible to own economically at everywhere, especially for settler that lives far from the city or charging/petrol station.

Their EV called 'One' are covered with solar cells on top of the roof and hood, furthermore, with one hour of charging using solar energy, the One can travel up to 12 kilometres. Plus, the black solar cells might make the "new-trendy" sporty look for EVs like ICEs using carbon fibre material hood. In addition, the EV is designed in the best aerodynamically shape to reduce its drag and save energy while travelling.

These breakthrough innovations will make the industry embarking on the journey to make transport not only completely sustainable but also can self-generate their energy without reliance on the grid or charging infrastructure. This will improve human life efficiently as we do not need to worry about the capability of the EV to travel at a longer distance since the One has travelled about 710 kilometres on a single charge since the One can travel while charging using solar cells.

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