Stella Vita Is the World’s First Fully Solar-Powered Camper

News

@xguntherc
| 1 min read

Stella Vita world's first full solar camper
Solar Team Eindhoven

Electric vehicles and becoming more and more mainstream, and now a group of students are looking past traditional cars and into campers. Twenty-two students from The Netherlands’ Eindhoven University of Technology have created the world’s first fully solar-powered camper. Complete with pop-out side panels and a pop-up roof for more room, delivering a 450-mile range.

This isn’t your typical mobile home or house on wheels that runs on gas. Instead, the entire Stella Vita vehicle is self-sustaining, thanks to a teardrop design and multiple sizeable solar panel arrays on the roof. The pop-out sides, which give inhabitants more room, also have solar panels on top, all of which combine to deliver enough battery power for endless adventures.

As you can see, it might not be the prettiest electric vehicle we’ve seen, and it’s quite long. The teardrop design slopes to the rear, giving them enough room for bigger solar panels and less drag for improved eMPG.

Inside, you’ll find a cozy area with a spacious cooking area and fridge, not to mention a bathroom, couch, and another full-size bed. All of this runs off solar power, obviously.

Every aspect of the design is about maximizing space to make it as comfortable as possible. Like many popular campers available today, the Stella Vita features several pop-out or pop-ups in the design.

Stella Vita camper
Solar Team Eindhoven

To maximize solar space and give users more room to enjoy the inside of their home, two compartments just below the roof extend outwards. Furthermore, just like those old-school trailers, the roof pops up, giving you enough room to stand up comfortably, and have more room to sleep.

The side doors give users easy access to the cabin, while there are two more suicide doors at the rear to quickly access the roof-top bed.

Unfortunately, there are no details about the battery or propulsion system that powers the Stella Vita camper. That said, the team did confirm if it’s a nice sunny day, it can go upwards of 453-miles on a charge, although it might take a few days to fully top-off again.

Solar Team Eindhoven is currently in the middle of a long road trip with the mobile home, traveling nearly 1,500 to test its capabilities. It may take several years before this project becomes a consumer product, but I want one already.

via Motor1

Note: This article have been indexed to our site. We do not claim legitimacy, ownership or copyright of any of the content above. To see the article at original source Click Here

Related Posts
$10 Billion Webb Space Telescope Sees Its First Star – And Captures a Brilliant Selfie thumbnail

$10 Billion Webb Space Telescope Sees Its First Star – And Captures a Brilliant Selfie

Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center The James Webb Space Telescope is nearing completion of the first phase of the months-long process of aligning the observatory’s primary mirror using the Near Infrared Camera (NIRCam) instrument. The team’s challenge was twofold: confirm that NIRCam was ready to collect light from celestial objects, and then identify starlight from…
Read More
Apple brings iOS 15.2.1 and closes security gaps thumbnail

Apple brings iOS 15.2.1 and closes security gaps

13.01.2022 iPhones und iPads sollten auf das auf die neueste Betriebssystemversion aktualisiert werden. Vor einigen Tagen wurde eine eigenartige Denial-of-Service-Lücke in den aktuellen iPhones und iPads entdeckt. Die "Doorlock" genannte Schwachstelle bezieht sich auf Apples HomeKit. Sie hat das Potenzial, iPhones und iPads in eine Art Todesspirale zu schicken, weil die Geräte dann in einer…
Read More
Bilim İnsanları Yangından Sonra Ağaçları Kesmenin Ekosisteme Zarar Verdiğini Açıkladı: Ormanlar Kendini Yenileyebiliyor thumbnail

Bilim İnsanları Yangından Sonra Ağaçları Kesmenin Ekosisteme Zarar Verdiğini Açıkladı: Ormanlar Kendini Yenileyebiliyor

Geçtiğimiz yaz aylarında Türkiye'de çıkan yangınlarda yaklaşık 203.000 hektarlık alan kül oldu. Yangın bölgelerindeki yeşillendirme çalışmaları devam ederken bilim insanları yanmış olan ağaçların kesilmesinin ekosisteme zarar verdiğini açıkladı. 2021’in yaz aylarında Türkiye’nin 31 ilinde yaşadığımış olduğumuz yangınların yaraları hala kapanmadı. 203.000 hektarlık alanın yandığı yangınlarda sadece ormanlarımız değil çıkan görüntülerle hepimizin yürekleri de yanmıştı. Aynı…
Read More
Why Easter is bad for ducks thumbnail

Why Easter is bad for ducks

Published April 5, 20235 min readOn Christmas Eve, two Pekin ducks were found frozen to a pond in Smithville, Ohio. They flapped their wings and squawked, fruitlessly struggling to free themselves until two locals, Maiara and Helder Bertolucci, spotted them. The pair slid on their stomachs over razor-thin ice and chiseled the animals free.“We’ll get
Read More
Index Of News
Consider making some contribution to keep us going. We are donation based team who works to bring the best content to the readers. Every donation matters.
Donate Now

Subscription Form

Liking our Index Of News so far? Would you like to subscribe to receive news updates daily?

Total
0
Share