One Inno at a time: The world's first solar camper van

This group of students from Eindhoven have made the world's first solar-powered van.

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00:00We're sitting at the Technical University of Eindhoven and this is the world's first

00:13soda-powered home, Stella Vita.

00:32My name is Tijn, Tijn Terhorst, and I'm a mechanical engineer.

00:36This vehicle is made by 22 students of Soda Team Eindhoven, all students from the Technical

00:40University of Eindhoven.

00:42We all put aside our studies for one and a half years to fully build this vehicle.

00:50What's special about this car is that it's actually a normal car, but it has these additional

00:54solar cells on the roof.

00:57So like a normal electric car, we can drive, but only on the energy of the sun.

01:03Besides driving, you can also live on the energy of the sun.

01:07So think of cooking an egg or making a cup of coffee, sleeping, taking a shower, everything

01:12is possible in this vehicle.

01:14As you can see here, it has a quite strange shape and it has to do with the aerodynamics.

01:19So what we're trying to do is to use as less or as little energy when we move from A to

01:25B.

01:26And we do this by making an air or droplet shape, that's why you can see this strange

01:33futuristic look.

01:36So one of the main features, of course, we have a really extended or comfortable interior.

01:43Because when you go on holiday, you don't want to make any compromises, you just want

01:46to relax.

01:47So that's why we have a kitchen here, it has a bed.

01:51Actually anything or everything that you would need is inside.

01:55There's even a toilet and a shower, it's all beneath there.

01:58My name is Lotte van Dassler and I'm 23 years old and I have a background in biomedical

02:09engineering.

02:10I'm in my master's currently.

02:12Sella Vita has a range of 600 kilometers on a fully battery and the battery is all positioned

02:18underneath the couch of the drivers.

02:24The normal RVs in the Netherlands drive 85 kilometers and Sella Vita can do that as well.

02:30That's why we want to showcase that the future is already here.

02:39Our main goal is to really inspire the current market and society and to show what's already

02:44possible.

02:45So we want to accelerate the transition towards a more sustainable future.