World’s First Production- readySolar Car To Take The Road Later This Year

王靜靜

A Dutch company is starting deliveries of theworldsfirstproduction- readysolarcarto customers later this year， promising months of

charge-less driving in summer conditions.

Lightyear， founded in the Netherlands in 2016， is making 949 of the models featuring curvedsolarpanelsacrossthecarshoodand roof. Power derived from the sun will add as much as 70 kilometers of driving range per day from the sun.

The company says the car will be able to drive around 624 kilometers without stoppingto recharge， and each hour in the sun will add up to nearly 9 kilometers of charge to the bat- tery.

“Electric cars are a step in the right direc- tion， but they are dependent on the grid， which is still dependent on mostly fossil fuel energy，” Chief Executive Officer and Co- Founder Lex Hoefsloot said at the reveal of the $263，000 Lightyear 0 model.“Adding a new source， the sun， adds certainty that you will always have that charge and you will have to charge a lot40less often.”

According to Lightyear the optimized solar roof and holistic design mean that the carcan drive for weeks， even months， withoutcharging. In cloudy climates， based on the average commute of around 35 kilometers per day，the car can drive for up to two months beforeneeding to be charged. In sunnier countries，that could be up to seven months. Plugged intoa regular home socket， Lightyear 0 can stillcharge 32 kilometers of range per hour.

In fall Lightyear will start-up production，with the first cars reaching their drivers inNovember.

2016 年成立于荷蘭的Lightyear 公司將于今年晚些時(shí)候向客戶交付全球首款可量產(chǎn)的太陽(yáng)能汽車。該公司承諾這款太陽(yáng)能汽車在夏季可駕駛數(shù)月而無(wú)需充電。

Lightyear 公司將生產(chǎn) 949 臺(tái)太陽(yáng)能汽車，這些汽車的引擎蓋和車頂都安裝了曲面太陽(yáng)能電池板，每天最多可提供70 公里的行駛里程。

該公司表示，Lightyear 0 充電一次可行駛約624 公里。陽(yáng)光照射1 小時(shí)可為車輛增加約9 公里行駛里程。

公司首席執(zhí)行官兼聯(lián)合創(chuàng)始人萊克斯· 霍夫斯洛特在Lightyear 0 車型發(fā)布會(huì)上表示：“電動(dòng)汽車朝著正確方向邁出了一步，但它們依賴于電力，而電力仍然主要依賴于化石燃料能源。添加太陽(yáng)能電池板，可以確保車輛能通過太陽(yáng)能獲得動(dòng)力，并且可以減少車輛充電次數(shù)?！痹撥囀蹆r(jià)為26.3 萬(wàn)美元（約合人民幣176 萬(wàn)元）。

據(jù)Lightyear公司介紹，經(jīng)過優(yōu)化的太陽(yáng)能車頂和整體設(shè)計(jì)可以使Lightyear 0在不充電的情況下行駛數(shù)周甚至數(shù)月。按照每天約35公里的平均通勤距離，Lightyear 0在多云氣候下最多可行駛兩個(gè)月才需充電。在陽(yáng)光充足的國(guó)家，Lightyear 0的續(xù)航時(shí)間或長(zhǎng)達(dá)7個(gè)月。Lightyear 0在接入普通家庭電源后充電1小時(shí)可行駛32公里。

Lightyear公司將于秋季開始生產(chǎn)，首批太陽(yáng)能汽車將于11月交付車主。