The ideal car for our Cyprus climate.....?
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The ideal car for our Cyprus climate.....?
After many years development time one can order now a car with integrated solar cells which allows you to drive 70 km per sunny day, charged with the power of the sun. So roughly 11,000 km per year with our Cyprus sun. For me it would be great as I am driving much less km's than that. Once fully charged I could drive for month without recharging from a plug, just leave the car a couple of hours in sunshine every day.... great!
https://lightyear.one/lightyear-0
Max
https://lightyear.one/lightyear-0
Max
Re: The ideal car for our Cyprus climate.....?
I stopped reading when I got to the Vegan interior bit.
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250,000 euros!!!
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Living in Polemi, Cyprus with my wife and daughter.
- cyprusmax47
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Following the small production run of the Lightyear 0, the company plans to make a more affordable model at a starting price of €30,000 (RM139,000). Production is set to start in late 2024 or early 2025.
source: https://www.carsifu.my/news/startup-lig ... its-pricey
Max
source: https://www.carsifu.my/news/startup-lig ... its-pricey
Max
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Are you dreaming of your Ford Capri again.
I started off with nothing and have most of it left !
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I wonder how it will be in sunny countries like Cyprus. Over here in the summer many drivers when they park their vehicles look for a shady spot. Some supermarkets even provide shaded areas for parking and some have fully enclosed car parks..
Trev..
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Back in the day I had a three litre Capri, accelerated like a bat out of Hell, no furry dice, one of those nice Feu Orange air fresheners' , if you had a car back in the 70s you will know what im talking about.

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You had to give it, a little prick in the back, to get it going

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Don't forget the 8 track.
I started off with nothing and have most of it left !
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When I was doing the school run, I had a little prick in the back, but the problem was to shut him up!

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Very James Bond ish in its looks! A car for the future. But its range of 70km, would get you to Limassol,but not Nicosia!
Fun for a buyer with lots of spare cash, and who has other means of more conventional transport....
Dee
Fun for a buyer with lots of spare cash, and who has other means of more conventional transport....
Dee
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Re: The ideal car for our Cyprus climate.....?
I suggest that you read the link I provided and also the link somebody else did.
The Lightyear 0 will get 388 miles of range — and 40 miles on solar alone, so fully charged it is Paphos-Nicosia and back and the batteries are still half charged...
https://www.theverge.com/2022/6/10/2316 ... pecs-price
Max
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I also thought that the car looked very big. Maybe too big for the current restricted access to the Ellados area of Paphos, where it seems Mouse and I both need to go. Never mind getting caught in long queues of traffic at times.
I prefer to drive my nippy small car which is quite economical to run in terms of mpg...
Max's super car seems a prototype car of the future for those with a deep pocket...
Dee
I prefer to drive my nippy small car which is quite economical to run in terms of mpg...
Max's super car seems a prototype car of the future for those with a deep pocket...
Dee
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Might be the ideal car for the Cyprus climate, but how many of the Cyprus population can afford or want to spend that amount on a car, hardly any is the answer, and of the few that could spend that dosh,
do you really think how many miles per cents, is in their thinking?
do you really think how many miles per cents, is in their thinking?