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The EV boom is here, as major automakers and many new startups roll out a wide array of EV models, and consumer interest continues to grow. This has been largely encouraged by government pressure to shift away from fossil fuels to green alternatives, with some countries introducing a ban on the sale of new internal combustion engine ICE vehicles within the next 15 years.
“Instead of focusing on how to increase the energy generated by PV cells on cars, we should be looking at how to decrease the energy required to move people around. Using 1 to 2 tonnes of machinery to move an 80-kilogram person is very inefficient.” One company developing solar EVs is the Dutch firm Lightyear, which claimed in 2022 that it had created the “world’s first solar car”.
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