“We call it a self-sustaining house on wheels,” said Lotte van Dasler, part of a team from the Technical University in the southern Dutch city of Eindhoven. “We are independent in terms of our energy. A camper isn’t, and we are. So I think that we make something new. New concept, new idea and new future – sustainable future.”Solar panels on the roof of the vehicle, called Stella Vita, generate enough energy to drive and live off the grid.
The student team says that, on a sunny day, it is capable of traveling 730 kilometers at a top speed of 120 kilometers per hour . And thanks to its 60 kilowatt hours battery it can drive 600 kilometers at night. At the test drive Friday near Paris, project manager Laura Van Houtum said, “We just want to make kilometers to make sure that these small troubles are not going to come up again.”
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