Whilst working hard to launch Lightyear One in 2021, we'd like to tell you the story of Lightyear, our mission and motivations.

https://www.lightyear.one

The Lightyear story starts in 2012 with Solar Team Eindhoven, founded by Lex Hoefsloot and Roy Cobbenhagen, that team set our to build the first solar-powered family car, Stella. With Stella, they won the World Solar Challenge in 2013 and they repeated that with Stella's successor in 2015. In 2016, Lightyear was founded to bring the solar-powered car concept to the market.