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By the end of 2019, a German car manufacturer Sono Motors will release Sion solar-powered car to Europe while Dutch Company Lightyear One fully solar-powered vehicle is scheduled for 2020. Both Sion and Lightyear has a solar panel covering. It has an onboard battery or direct charge. The range of Lightyear One is 400-600 km while Sion has a 250km range. According to Lightyear's manufacturer, it could run without charging for months while Sion's says it can drive 30 km per day even with an empty battery.
The market price of Lightyear One is $140,000 while Sono's Sion is said to be more affordable.
Solar powered car harness energy from the sun then converts it into electricity and fuels the battery that runs the car. Other solar cars can power the motor directly.
Photovoltaic cells (PVC) are solar panels components. It is made up of semiconductors mostly silicon, and it absorbs the light.
- 1 Australia
1.1 Sunswift V (eVe)
1.2 Solar Spirit 3
- 2 Brazil
2.1 e.coTech Solar version
- 3 Canada
3.1 Schulich Delta
- 4 China
4.1 Cars without name
- 5 Germany
5.1 Hochschule Bochum: Open World
5.2 PowerCore SunCruiser
5.3 Sion
5.4 SolarWorld GT
5.5 ThyssenKrupp SunRiser
- 6 India
6.1 SolarMobil
- 7 Italy
7.1 P-Mob
7.2 Emilia 4
- 8 Japan
8.1 Kaiton II
8.2 OWL
- 9 Monaco
9.1 Venturi Astrolab
9.2 Venturi Eclectic
- 10 The Netherlands
10.1 Stella
10.2 Stella Lux
10.3 Stella Vie
10.4 Twente One
10.4.1 Specifications
- 11 New Zealand
11.1 UltraCommuter
- 12 Pakistan
12.1 ECO1, ECO1GL and ECO3GL
- 13 Slovenia
13.1 Metron 7
13.2 Superpiki
- 14 Switzerland
14.1 Icare
14.2 Solar Taxi
- 15 Taiwan
15.1 Apollo Solar Cruiser Car
- 16 USA
16.1 Daedalus
16.2 Eos
