The vehicle is admirably light and can cover 390 miles on a sunny day without having to stop at a charging station.
The student team at the Eindhoven University of Technology has successfully developed yet another version of their fully solar-powered vehicle. Named Stella Terra, the vehicle required a new design altogether to meet the challenges of off-road driving and paves the way for a new class of solar vehicles in the future.
While powering the grid completely with renewables might be a towering task, each car can be made independently using solar panels. This is the concept of a solar-powered vehicle but has largely remained in the prototyping stage, with the only exception of Lightyear, which The vehicle is powered by the solar panels located on its roof but it is the construction under the hood that makes it stand apart. Unlike other new vehicle technologies that are tested out on the tarmac, Stella Terra needed to withstand a bumpy ride. However, the engineers could not increase the weight of the vehicle, so they needed new components to build the car. But since such a car has not been built before, they could not get them from anywhere else either.