Enlarge / The Stella Vita hits the road. (credit: Solar Team Eindhoven )
The creators of a new “self-sustaining house on wheels” are hoping their strange-looking project will help spark interest in solar vehicles. The vehicle, called the Stella Vita, was made by Eindhoven University of Technology students.
Solar Team Eindhoven’s 22 members previously created a smaller solar-powered family car called the Stella Lux . According to Tijn Ter Horst, a member of the team and a mechanical engineering student at the university, the Stella Lux was energy-positive. “She could power other electric vehicles because she had so much energy left, ” Ter Horst told Ars.
After producing the particular Stella Lux, the team began brainstorming future projects and came up with the idea of a home-like vehicle powered entirely by typically the Sun. In March, the students started constructing a tear-shaped photo voltaic mobile home, and they recently completed the project.
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