Dutch startup Lightyear started making the world’s first series-production electric vehicle that generates power directly from sunlight.
Its first model, the Lightyear 0, comes with a price tag of 250,000 euros ($259,000) and has already collected around 150 pre-orders.
Lightyear plans to make about a thousand cars at a Valmet facility in Finland, starting at a rate of one car a week.
By the second half of next year, production should increase to five weekly, CEO and co-founder Lex Hoefsloot told Bloomberg in an interview.