{"id":163280,"date":"2023-05-03T06:05:14","date_gmt":"2023-05-03T11:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/this-solar-powered-motorhome-was-designed-by-students"},"modified":"2023-05-03T06:05:14","modified_gmt":"2023-05-03T11:05:14","slug":"this-solar-powered-motorhome-was-designed-by-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/this-solar-powered-motorhome-was-designed-by-students","title":{"rendered":"This solar-powered motorhome was designed by students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mJmfmbLRTsw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A solar-powered motorhome, shaped like a huge elongated teardrop, silently rolled into Madrid on Friday as part of a month-long journey from the Netherlands to southern Spain to highlight more sustainable modes of transport.<\/p>\n<p>Engineering students at the Technical University of Eindhoven in the Netherlands created the blue and white vehicle, named Stella Vita \u2013 Latin for \u201cstar\u201d and \u201clife\u201d \u2013 to inspire car makers and politicians to accelerate the transition toward green energy.<\/p>\n<p>Expansive solar panels on the roof and on lateral wings that unfold when the vehicle stops allow the self-sustaining house on wheels, or SHOW, to travel up to 740 km (460 miles) on a sunny day, while the battery can also power a fridge, coffee maker and laptop in the two-person cabin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A solar-powered motorhome, shaped like a huge elongated teardrop, silently rolled into Madrid on Friday as part of a month-long journey from the Netherlands to southern Spain to highlight more sustainable modes of transport. Engineering students at the Technical University of Eindhoven in the Netherlands created the blue and white vehicle, named Stella Vita \u2013 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,1523,1633,17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-computing","category-solar-power","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163280","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}