How Lightyear can enable a global grid of 304 million charging points
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What is needed to roll out EV charging infrastructure by considering highly efficient EVs? With the accelerated acceptance of electric vehicles, set to reach 84 million in Europe by 2030, comes a string of challenges. Vehicle electrification will demand a substantial increase in the charging infrastructure and weigh heavily on the existing electricity grid. How can this challenge be solved? Read industry insights in our white paper today.
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Present - The need for clean mobility
Mobility is an intrinsic need for human kind. Electric cars are being seen as the next step in clean mobility. But, at present, electric cars have a scaling problem. The electricity grid cannot accommodate the increase in energy consumption and global coverage of charging infrastructure still remains too low for adoption. This is even more true in developing regions of the globe where demand for cars will take off in the upcoming decade.
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Solution - Grid-independency
We have developed a car that can be charged by both regular household power plugs and the sun. It simply works anywhere, and takes you everywhere. Clean and convenient, not constrained by charging infrastructure, Lightyear One revolutionises the world of mobility.
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Future - A light-year of sustainable kilometres
Currently, all cars in the world drive one light-year together, each year. That is 9,460,000,000,000 kilometres. Every year. Powered by fossil fuels. Our goal is to accelerate the adoption of electric cars so that by 2035, one light-year will have been driven electric. To that, we are providing a scalable solution.
About Lightyear & ubitricity
We see a future where electric driving doesn’t depend on plugging into the power grid, and being smart with our energy is effortless. Our cars are solar electric, and Lightyear 0 is the first ever production-ready solar car, the most aerodynamic and efficient in the world. Our next model, Lightyear 2, will inherit all of its groundbreaking innovations at a fraction of the market price.
Lightyear is a high-tech company developing long-range solar electric vehicles. Founded in 2016 by World Solar Challenge racing champions from the Eindhoven University of Technology and backed by industry veterans, it is our mission to provide clean mobility for everyone, everywhere.
ubitricity is a member of the Shell Group. The name stems from “ubiquitous electricity” and it’s the company’s mission to provide “Electricity, for Everyone, Everywhere” through its range of intelligent solutions for charging and billing electric cars. ubitricity is well-known for running the UK’s largest public charging network with its compact and robust retrofitted lamp post EV charge points.