is able to share the energy she harvested from the sun with other electric vehicles using her Type 2 charging port. It's the first vehicle of its kind to provide such energy sharing features. Stella Vita Instead of engineering another solar car for the World Solar Challenge of 2021, Solar Team Eindhoven built Stella Vita. Vita was unveiled in September 2021 and shortly after, the team of 22 students toured Vita through Europe from Eindhoven (the Netherlands) to Tarifa (Spain). Stella Vita is a "self-sustaining house on wheels", a morph of a solar car and a camper. With a rated battery range of 600km and 730km on a sunny day and a battery capacity of 60kWh, Vita is incredibly energy efficient. This energy efficiency is a direct result of a streamlined aerodynamic design and fully integrated solar roof. Vita being a proof-of-concept vehicle, it inspires the world as a contributor to the energy transition. Criticism Criticisms of the Stella concept argue that it is much more practical and efficient to keep the solar panel array at a fixed location, like putting a solar array on the roof of your house, rather than on that of a car. Most houses have enough roof-space to hold a solar array large enough to power both the house itself and one or two electric cars. Additionally, there is no risk of damage that random road debris might do to the cells on a car. On the other hand, solar-powered cars could potentially be of use in regions where sunlight and space are abundant, and without easy access to grid electricity, where charging facilities are rare. See also Nuna — A series of solar racing cars, built by a team from the Dutch Delft University of Technology, that have won the World Solar Challenge six times out of the last eight races. Sunswift eVe — The fastest car in the 2013 Cruiser class competition of the WSC, built by a team from the University of New South Wales (Australia). PowerCore SunCruiser — A three-seat solar racer, built by a team from the Ruhr University Bochum in Germany. References External links Solar Team Eindhoven official website Stella by Solar Team Eindhoven – 1 hour documentary with English subtitles Solar car racing Eindhoven University of Technology Science and technology in the Netherlands Dutch inventions