{"id":75087,"date":"2018-01-09T22:42:56","date_gmt":"2018-01-10T06:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/a-fully-solar-powered-car-may-be-hitting-the-road-by-2019"},"modified":"2018-01-14T11:02:39","modified_gmt":"2018-01-14T19:02:39","slug":"a-fully-solar-powered-car-may-be-hitting-the-road-by-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/a-fully-solar-powered-car-may-be-hitting-the-road-by-2019","title":{"rendered":"A Fully Solar-Powered Car May Be Hitting The Road by 2019"},"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\/d_QAWVUoZFg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lightyear.one\/i-want-one\/\">Lightyear One<\/a>, a car whose ability to use solar power has been thought of as an impossible feat, just won <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ces.tech\/Eureka-Park-Climate-Change-Innovator-Awards\">a Climate Change Innovator Award<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Designed by the Dutch startup Lightyear, the \u201ccar that charges itself\u201d can supposedly drive for months without charging and has a 400\u2013800 km range. But is a solar-powered car feasible?<\/p>\n<p>For years, the concept of \u201csolar-powered cars\u201d has loomed over the electric car industry as a hopeful, possible future. But there are many who argue that this concept is not only impractical, it is basically impossible.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/a-fully-solar-powered-car-may-be-hitting-the-road-by-2019\">http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/a-fully-solar-powered-car-may-be...ad-by-2019<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lightyear One, a car whose ability to use solar power has been thought of as an impossible feat, just won a Climate Change Innovator Award. Designed by the Dutch startup Lightyear, the \u201ccar that charges itself\u201d can supposedly drive for months without charging and has a 400\u2013800 km range. But is a solar-powered car feasible? [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75087","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75087"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75146,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75087\/revisions\/75146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}