Știrile ProTV meets the students building a solar vehicle for Australia
Cluj-Napoca, Preparing for BWSC 2025
See the original report Știrile ProTV, in Romanian
Știrile ProTV's iLikeIT technology section ran a video report on a prototype vehicle that runs only on solar energy, built in Romania by students of the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca. The page opens with the idea that in future we might drive vehicles powered by the sun alone.
“This is our latest solar vehicle prototype. It has about 6 square metres of photovoltaic panels, it can travel 500 kilometres on the energy stored in its batteries, and we are getting ready to take it to Australia”
Eric-Gabriel Lefter, Solis team manager
The report names four members of the team: Alexandra-Maria Lupu, Ștefania-Gabriela Mărgăoan, Eric-Gabriel Lefter and Gheorghe Munteanu. Eric describes the vehicle as the team's latest solar prototype, with about 6 square metres of photovoltaic panels, and says the team is getting ready to take it to Australia.
He puts the vehicle's range on the energy stored in its batteries at 500 km. Figures the team published later for Hyperion give a range of up to 300 km on battery alone. The written page is short, and ProTV says the full story is in the attached video.
Summary written by the Solis team from the report published by Știrile ProTV on 17 March 2025. The original: “Mașină care merge doar cu energie solară, creată de un grup de studenți de la Universitatea Tehnică din Cluj-Napoca - Știrile ProTV”
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