The Lightyear 0 Is The Game-Changer We've Been Waiting For

I did this to my grandparents golf cart years ago. A solar panel roof, a bit larger than the roof that comes on a 4 seat cart. They only had to "balance" charge it once a month to keep the lead acid batteries at "optimal" charge. They ran it everyday for years. Now they're 97 and 98 and have no interest, but they had fun with it, and used to brag about it to all the people who had to plug in nightly.

I really hope this is a turning point for the way EV's are built, I live in Arizona and have asked the question for years "why hasn't any manufacturer put solar panels on an electric car for the parts of the world that have an abundance of sunlight?" To me this just seems logical.

A reasonably priced consumer version of this would do well here in Australia with the amount of sun we have.

The 'stats' on this car are precisely what EV enthusiasts expect from a new generation of EV vehicles. Going 0-60 in 2 seconds is not actually important even though we don't expect to give 2 weeks notice to go 55 mph either. We'll be happy to save the 'time machine' for the next generation. Put these specs in a $25K-$30K vehicle and lets get on with life. Don't make it expensive or overly complicated...remember...your grand-parents may need to drive these cars too.

Hats off to Lightyear. To start a new car company and to get it so close to actual production is a major acheivement in itself even without the groudbreaking efficiency and design. Fingers crossed they can endure the financial pain of getting it produced and delivered so they can move on to more models.
Tesla have shown it can be done and Lucid, Rivian et al are bravely treading the same expensive path.

This is where it all started. The next generation of electric cars focused on efficiency and not some stupid designs with no attention being given to aerodynamics. It's been always a treat to watch fully charged videos. Keep up the good work. All the best to lightyear.

Please let the whole team know that the transition at 7:46 was amazing and that some viewers noticed ❤️
I love this car, hopefully Lightyear will let me set a world record with it 😏

Cannot wait to witness how most transport will be like this. It's a beautiful world, which is ahead of us!

in my country Indonesia, this car could go more than a year before it need to charge. By the way, i love how this channel produce their video.. so enlightening and yet entertaining a lot. Kudos for production team!!!

The idea is sound, yes the price is eye watering, but no different to what other startups have tried to do, the real issue is what comes next. Good luck to them and hope they break through. As a concept it’s excellent.

When I was young most cars had a -0-60 acceleration time of more than 10 seconds, and a car that could accelerate from 0-60 in 10 seconds or less was considered a fast car.
EV's from the likes of Testla accelerate at an astounding rate compared to this.
I think that such performance capabilities may well be a misallocation of design priorities, they are certainly fashionable which is likely why manufacturers feel compelled to produce vehicles with them but if peoples mindset were to change from this 'racecar performance' mentality I think that it would definitely be a good thing and a more practical / utilitarian outlook.
The same thing applies to things like roadholding and cornering ability, narrow tyres have less rolling resistance and who cares if your wheels are heavier because they have hub motors in them and so are less reactive to bumps, their still quite good enough for anything other than a racetrack.
We need to change our priorities and judge 'performance' differently.

The 7 months between charges in Portugal is incredible! I hope this is a game changer

Nice! That’s more like it!! A sub $30,000 version of this is what most of us want & need.

The idea that you can sell it to areas that don’t have charging infrastructure is truely amazing that blew my mind ! Well done, there are truely lessons to be learnt and applied to all cars here.

Wow, this car and the Aptera are leading the way. So excited for the future.

Looks pretty amazing. Great production. Your Chief Transition Officer was on point! 7:42

Mindblowed by your video!
I live in Portugal, although the price is far beyond what I could dream to buy, the technology and the possibilities of driving without almost using electricity for the grid makes me smile. This is the true environmental friendly car!
Less drag, 7month without charge for a 70 km comute, which is around my daily mileage, which can carry 4 to 5 people. This is a dream!

Love it. And yes, wouldn't it be nice to have an affordable EV that just accelerated steadily to 60 (100kmh) in 9 or 10 seconds but fit European roads and parking bays. One that had efficiency at its heart. One with solar panels to top it up when parked like the Lightyear.

Also, I wonder if Lightyear have considered doing something with Hymer the motorhome manufacturer? An EV version of one of their campers with banks of solar on the roof could allow you to drive on EV, camp up and charge for a week and then set off again.

Enough of my pipedreams.

As a cyclist who loves long rides, I've been thinking about aerodynamics for years. Free speed. Free distance. I've wanted an efficient car like this for a long time.

Love the solar aspect. My cars sit in the sun all damn day and don't even charge the 12v starter battery. I did put a 5w panel on the dash of my truck to keep the starter battery charged, and the battery lasted 15yrs, but I guess there's no money to be made when things last a long time. Let me know when the price hits 30k :)