Lightyear suspends production of 0 model

The Dutch car company Lightyear announces in a press release to suspend the production of Lightyear 0. The company wants to redirect the focus and resources completely towards Lightyear 2. Lightyear 0 was the first production solar car in the world. This decision was not taken lightly as it impacts all who embarked on this journey with us, says the company.

This morning we therefore submitted the request to the court to open suspension of payment proceedings in relation to Atlas Technologies B.V., our operating company responsible for the production of Lightyear 0. This is a subsidiary of Atlas Technologies Holding B.V. Atlas Technologies Holding B.V., which holds the IP rights, and Lightyear Layer B.V. are not in scope of the suspension of payments proceedings of Atlas Technologies B.V.

Lightyear will make 10.000 cars for the business-to-business market

Car-manufacturer Lightyear, based in Helmond, will produce 10,000 additional models of the Lightyear 2.

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CEO and Co-Founder Lex Hoefsloot: “Unfortunately we had to make this decision. The whole process of developing Lightyear 0 has provided our company many valuable learnings over the past years. We are now redirecting all our energy towards building Lightyear 2 in order to make it available to clients on schedule.

“Recently, we launched a waitlist for Lightyear 2 resulting in more than 40,000 subscriptions of individual customers and we already had approximately 20,000 pre-orders from fleet owners. We hope to conclude some key investments in the coming weeks in order to scale up to Lightyear 2, an affordable solar electric vehicle available for a wider audience. Therefore we strongly believe that the decision taken is the best way forward in achieving our vision, providing clean mobility for everyone, everywhere.”