{"id":108888,"date":"2020-06-19T11:45:33","date_gmt":"2020-06-19T18:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/tesla-model-3-gets-a-solar-roof-thanks-to-lightyear"},"modified":"2020-06-19T11:45:33","modified_gmt":"2020-06-19T18:45:33","slug":"tesla-model-3-gets-a-solar-roof-thanks-to-lightyear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/tesla-model-3-gets-a-solar-roof-thanks-to-lightyear","title":{"rendered":"Tesla Model 3 gets a solar roof thanks to Lightyear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/tesla-model-3-gets-a-solar-roof-thanks-to-lightyear2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A Tesla Model 3 has been modified with a solar roof as part of Lightyear\u2019s solar car development program.<\/p>\n<p>We have been reporting on Lightyear for a few years now.<\/p>\n<p>The startup <a href=\"https:\/\/electrek.co\/2017\/06\/29\/solar-electric-car-startup-lightyear\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">first caught our attention because it spun out of Solar Team Eindhoven<\/a>, a group of engineering students from the Technical University of Eindhoven (Netherlands) who have been competing in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.solarteameindhoven.nl\/project\/solar-challenge\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">World Solar Challenge<\/a> with their <a href=\"https:\/\/electrek.co\/2015\/10\/15\/solar-team-eindhoven-unveiled-the-stella-lux-an-energy-positive-solar-car-photo-gallery\/\">Stella and Stella Lux, energy positive solar cars<\/a> \u2014 meaning that they can produce more energy than they consume.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Tesla Model 3 has been modified with a solar roof as part of Lightyear\u2019s solar car development program. We have been reporting on Lightyear for a few years now. The startup first caught our attention because it spun out of Solar Team Eindhoven, a group of engineering students from the Technical University of Eindhoven [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,38,17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-engineering","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}