Electric vehicles that charge themselves with sunlight are now starting to pop up, and the smallest one we’ve seen is this quadricycle created by Squad, a startup founded by two former Ligtyear employees in 2019 and based in Breda, the Netherlands. The Squad Solar City Car isn’t so much a car, but more a four-wheeled scooter with a big solar panel on the roof that is said to provide up to 20 km (12 miles) of free range per day (tested in the Nertherlands), on top of its stated range on one charge of its battery pack of 100 km (62 miles).
In Europe, you can drive vehicles like this without a license, as long as they fall below a certain threshold for power and top speed. Two versions will be offered: a two-seater that tops out at 45 km/h (28 mph) and a four-seater that has a top speed of 70 km/h (43 mph). Both are powered by a 3.2 horsepower (2 kW) motor drawing from up to four individual batteries that can be easily swapped out.
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