Stella Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Fri, 23 Oct 2015 19:33:11 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Stella Lux – The Dutch Solar-Powered Car That Produces Energy in Excess https://www.greenoptimistic.com/stella-lux-eindhoven/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/stella-lux-eindhoven/#respond Fri, 23 Oct 2015 19:33:11 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=57059 The Eindhoven University of Technology was the birthplace of an extraordinary new green technology. The prototype was developed two years ago by students at the university. A “family-sized” car, the Stella Lux can seat four and generates energy with 5.8 square meters of solar cells. The vehicle also has a battery that can generate 15kWh of energy. That […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/stella-lux-eindhoven/feed/ 0 57059 Stella Lux: Solar Powered Family Car Made by Dutch Students https://www.greenoptimistic.com/stella-lux-solar-car/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/stella-lux-solar-car/#respond Mon, 06 Jul 2015 19:50:25 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=55507 Stella Lux, a new and improved family-sized car by a team of Dutch students, is not only entirely powered by solar, but it can even generate extra power just in case. As the countdown to this year’s World Solar Challenge gets lower and lower, teams from all over the globe begin to show off their […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/stella-lux-solar-car/feed/ 0 55507 “The Stella” is a 500-mile Solar-Powered Electric Vehicle https://www.greenoptimistic.com/stella-500-mile-solar-powered-electric-vehicle-20140924/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/stella-500-mile-solar-powered-electric-vehicle-20140924/#respond Wed, 24 Sep 2014 16:53:12 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=49335 It might seem like the most obvious clean-transportation solution, combining solar power and electric vehicles, but we have not seen much on this front, at least, not until now. True, some electric vehicle owners have solar power installations on their rooftops, and even some chargers on the Tesla Supercharger network are solar powered. Still, even […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/stella-500-mile-solar-powered-electric-vehicle-20140924/feed/ 0 49335 Toyota and Subaru to Sell Electric Cars https://www.greenoptimistic.com/toyota-subaru-electric-car-20080909/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/toyota-subaru-electric-car-20080909/#comments Tue, 09 Sep 2008 15:35:15 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=823 The electric vehicles market will start to vary from next year. While Subaru promises a four seated electric vehicle, Toyota confirmed for the first time the plans that put to sale an electric vehicle before 2010.

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