Sometimes we just have to tell you about an RV that we won’t be carrying, selling, or even seeing in the future. And when we say the future, we mean the next decade. Hopefully.
A team of 22 Dutch students from Eindhoven University of Technology, known as Solar Team Eindhoven, has been engineering a number of proof-of-concept solar vehicles, starting with the Stella, the world’s first solar powered family car.
Then they created the Stella Lux, the first energy positive family car that produces more energy than it consumes.
You can probably see where this is going.
They created the Stella Vie: the first street-legal solar family car, then the Stella Era: a self-driving solar car. They made the Stella Terra: the world’s first off-road solar car.
And now, they’ve engineered the world’s first solar-powered camper van, named the Stella Vita. The Stella Vita is a mobile home wherein you can live and work while travelling on the energy of the sun. Stella Vita generates energy through its solar panels on the roof and uses this energy for both driving and living. Stella Vita generates enough solar energy to drive, shower, watch TV, charge your laptop and make coffee. The on a full solar charge the Stella Vita can travel up to 730 kilometers (approximately 450 miles) within 24 hours and reach speeds up to 120 kilometers per hour (75 mph).
We admit, it’s not exactly Poulsbo RV material. In fact, while the prototype was certified street-legal in the EU, Washington State would probably no let us sell an RV so light that it needs a roll cage to earn certification.
But this is the future. We’re cheering on the Eindhoven team for doing the hard work creating the technology that our trusted RV Producers can study, license, and one day build into an RV that we can take on our own adventures.
Someday. Someday soon.
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