{"id":127711,"date":"2021-09-15T17:22:18","date_gmt":"2021-09-16T00:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/electric-car-with-extension-and-expandable-solar-offers-a-glimpse-of-future-rv-life"},"modified":"2021-09-15T17:22:18","modified_gmt":"2021-09-16T00:22:18","slug":"electric-car-with-extension-and-expandable-solar-offers-a-glimpse-of-future-rv-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/electric-car-with-extension-and-expandable-solar-offers-a-glimpse-of-future-rv-life","title":{"rendered":"Electric car with extension and expandable solar offers a glimpse of future RV life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/electric-car-with-extension-and-expandable-solar-offers-a-glimpse-of-future-rv-life2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new electric solar car project with a living extension and expandable solar panels is giving us a glimpse into what the future might hold for RV\/van life.<\/p>\n<p>Solar Team Eindhoven, a group of engineering students from the Technical University of Eindhoven (Netherlands), is probably the most famous team that has competed in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.solarteameindhoven.nl\/project\/solar-challenge\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">World Solar Challenge<\/a>, a competition to create super-efficient solar cars.<\/p>\n<p>The people behind Lightyear came up from that team, and now they are trying to use the knowledge acquired through the creation of the original <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 solar cars<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/electrek.co\/2017\/06\/29\/solar-electric-car-startup-lightyear\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">bring to market a road-legal solar car<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new electric solar car project with a living extension and expandable solar panels is giving us a glimpse into what the future might hold for RV\/van life. Solar Team Eindhoven, a group of engineering students from the Technical University of Eindhoven (Netherlands), is probably the most famous team that has competed in the World [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127711","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\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127711\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}