The world's first solar electric car Lightyear 0 now enters production | The facility will produce one car a week, to begin with.

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Unlike combustion engine-powered vehicles that can be refueled virtually anywhere and in no time, electric vehicles require dedicated charging infrastructure and time to charge the batteries.Lightyear founder and CEO Lex Hoefsloot, is, however, of the opinion that the rapid transition to EVs will result in a large number of vehicles seeking access to charging infrastructure, which won't scale up in sync with the increased demand.Since it is unlikely that a driver will exact the full juice of the battery every single day, the panels keep charging Lightyear 0 every day and add more miles every day.Last year, Interesting Engineering reported that the company is working on a successor for Lightyear 0 dubbed Two, which is expected to require even lesser access to electric charging and will be friendlier on the pockets for those looking to snap them up.Norman Wagner from the University of Delaware tells Interesting Engineering about the challenges of making extraterrestrial cement for off-space infrastructure."

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