Designed by Jukka Rautiainen, MINILUX is a concept vehicle targeted for urban dwellers who use their own car mainly for leisure purposes and rely on other forms of transport in their daily mobility. Due to its nature as a leisure vehicle, it spends long periods of time unused. When parked outside, the vehicle uses high-efficiency photovoltaic panels to harvest solar energy. It is plugged in to a domestic or public access point that enables two-way energy exchange.
When the car’s batteries are fully charged it can feed the excess energy to the main grid and similarly substitute the lack of solar energy by charging from the main grid just like a regular plug-in electric vehicle. Annually the vehicle would have a solar powered range of 9000 miles in Central Europe and US East Coast and up to 16,000 miles in sunny locations such as California, Australia and the Middle East.
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