3 Interesting Solar Car Projects

As person who only drives a few thousand mile at most a year and leaves their car in the sun . This would be perfect.

In the Philippines, it's a struggle to find covered parking space. At work or at shopping malls, you usually end up getting your car baked in the sun for hours. I'd be glad if it was charging though. This will be a game changer for a ridiculously sunny country like ours.

I recognise that bloke in the opening! Appreciate you crediting our vid. What a machine this was, privileged to have driven it and very sad it never saw the light of day. Fingers crossed Lightyear has better success with its next endeavour

As a long-standing Coldfusion fan, it was pretty special to see one about my home city and even the university I studied at. Amazing video as always 👌🏼

60km for daily driving is actually amazing. Here in South Africa, that's just over the avg kilometers driven a year. Add to that we have serious amounts of sun. Even in winter

We need to protect that company, we don't need to misteriously disappear

I have lost count of how many times I dreamt of a car powered by the sun since I was a little kid. This is like a childhood dream come true

Really love the video quality and implementation of your music. Been watching your content for years now but I realised that this form of creativity and quality is often taken for granted or not acknowledged nowadays so I thought I'd mention

Lightyear 0 was ridiculously overpriced because essentially it was a way for the company to gather funds, not because the car did indeed cost so much. Lightyear also had the problem that they expanded too much, too quickly and they didn't have time to generate a stable revenue source (i.e. actually produce and sell cars) before the money dried up, but why that happened I don't know. My guess is that it was just due to the management team not having that much experience with actual business administration. The CEO was just a fresh master's graduate when he cofounded the company having only had experience with managing small student teams, and that doesn't translate immediately to running a commercial company of 300+ employees. All the best to him though, I hope they do manage to bring Lightyear 2 to market.

Who doesn't love another episode of ColdFusion! What a time to be alive to get this kind of content for free. Thanks mr. Altraide!

Informative and interesting, as always. I would definitely go for a solar vehicle once they go into production. Slower speed isn’t an issue, especially in the city - back in the 1980s used to drive a Mercedes 300D (diesel) which wasn’t exactly fast, had terrible acceleration and sounded like a tractor but it still got me from A to B.

Very cool. It's a great idea for a commuter vehicle, most people never use more than half the throttle pedal and the biggest selling vehicles in Australia are slow diesel twin cabs due to tax reasons with sole traders.

This video really does give me hope. I currently own a battery electric car with a range of around 80 miles (130 KM) that is used for around the county driving. I've had it for 8 years now and I love it to bits. If an affordable one came out with enough solar capacity to make battery charging unnecessary for short to intermediate length trips I would be all over it. Thanks for feeding my dreams, Dagogo!

Musk said “Making the car was the easy part. Making the factory to make the car was 100 times harder.”

In the Netherlands we have "micro cars" that are restricted 45kmph. They are not allowed on highways but are allowed on bycle paths and city roads. Obviously they are not used for long distsnce but they provide a crucial niche for families that cannot transport children etc in cargo icycles. I think these would be where a solar car could really be a suitable platform given todays efficiency and design in solar panel and battery technologies. I am building a proof of concept vehicle, that is basically a :"cycle kart with 4x350W electric hubs, a 2 KW 48V Li battery and 200W of flexible solar panels. Estimate 30 -50km daily range without ever plugging in, extended to continuous driving under correct conditions (ie Australia, India, Africa etc. Love the channel! One of the very best on You Tube!!

Thank you for producing this and posting it. Very informative. I appreciate your artistry.

I preordered the Aptera a couple yrs ago. The efficiency is very impressive. Hoping they are a success.

A $30,000 hyper efficient electric car is almost exactly what I have been holding out for. Speed is barely a factor for me. When you said it went 90MPH or whatever the exact speed was, I was thinking "that's great!". It could have a max speed of 80MPH and a 0-60 speed of 15 seconds for all I care. I drive on flat and mostly empty country roads in rural Ohio. I just want an electric equivalent to my 2004 Camry, really.

I would absolutely love to have one of those cars you described at the end. The speed limit in the UK maxes out at 70mph anyway so the top speed isn’t an issue, and not having to pay for petrol or maintain an engine would be fantastic.

Thanks Dagogo another great vid! 😊 Yes I would definitely buy one especially as my needs are mostly local. Keep up the great work! 👍