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4 Wheels Stella Vie – The Solar Family Car from Eindhoven Most solar race cars are single-seat arrows built for one thing: speed. Solar Team Eindhoven asked a different question: can a normal… Read more 4 Wheels Solar Buzz – A DIY Solar Bus for a Small Town This might be the most Solar-Mobility story of all: one person, a second-hand vehicle and a lot of determination. In 2011, Kim… Read more 4 Wheels Lightyear 0 – The First Production Solar Car What if your car simply charged itself while it stood in the parking lot? That was the promise of the Lightyear 0,… Read more 4 Wheels GM Sunraycer – Winner of the First World Solar Challenge Every solar race car you see today owes something to Sunraycer. In 1987 the very first World Solar Challenge sent a field… Read more 4 Wheels SolarWorld GT – Around the World in a Solar Car Most solar cars race for a week and then go to a museum. The students of Hochschule Bochum had a bigger plan… Read more 4 Wheels Nuna 7 – Delft’s First Four-Wheeled World Champion The Nuon Solar Team from Delft University of Technology is the most successful team in World Solar Challenge history. Its Nuna cars… Read more 4 Wheels Sunswift 7 – 1,000 km on One Charge in Under 12 Hours The students of UNSW Sunswift Racing in Sydney have been building solar cars since the 1990s. Their seventh car took everything they… Read more 4 Wheels Sono Sion – The Solar Car for Everyone While the Lightyear 0 aimed high, the Sono Sion aimed wide: a practical, affordable family car whose whole body helps charge the… Read more 4 Wheels HySolarKit – Turning an Ordinary Car into a Solar Hybrid Millions of perfectly good petrol cars will be on the road for years. Professor Gianfranco Rizzo of the University of Salerno asked… Read more 4 Wheels VéLorean – A Side-by-Side Solar Tandem Quad Most solar tandems put one rider behind the other on a tall, tippy frame. Olivier wanted something else: a vehicle where two… Read more 4 Wheels Squad Solar City Car – A Solar Microcar for Everyday Errands Not every solar vehicle needs to cross a continent. Most of our daily trips are short: school runs, shopping, a ride to… Read more 4 Wheels ARI 458 Solar – An Electric Micro-Van That Charges Itself Delivery vans do lots of short trips, park outside all day, and have big flat surfaces. That makes them ideal candidates for… Read more 4 Wheels Stella Lux – The Energy-Positive Family Car Two years after their first family solar car, the students of Solar Team Eindhoven set themselves an even bolder target: a car… Read more 4 Wheels Venturi Eclectic – The Sun-and-Wind City Car from Monaco In 2006 the Monaco-based electric-vehicle maker Venturi surprised the Paris Motor Show with a car that looked like a friendly little robot.… Read more 4 Wheels The Big Lemon – The UK’s First Solar-Powered Bus The Big Lemon is not a normal bus company. It was founded in Brighton in 2007 by Tom Druitt and his childhood… Read more