NEWEST SUV WITH SOLAR ROOF BY HUMBLE MOTORS
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Another Californian EV startup has unveiled an electric concept SUV – but this time, it’s built to do between 10-60 miles (16-96 km) per day on pure sunlight. The Humble One will rock more than 80 square feet of solar panels to self-charge even when unplugged. This thing really looks like more of a crossover, or even an oversized hot hatch, than an SUV – just a tad longer than a Corolla, it has only four seats, and no pretensions toward serious off-roading. It won’t need to go bush-bashing to show you a good time, though; horsepower maxes out at 1,020 ponies, which is more than enough to sizzle most drivers’ sausages just fine.
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At around 4,000 lb (1,814 kg), the Humble One is some 766 lb (348 kg) lighter than Tesla’s Model S Plaid, while putting out the same kind of power and claiming 500 miles of range against the Tesla’s 390 miles. That strikes us as a tad fishy, but let’s press on; those kinds of figures would appear to promise a 0-60 mph (0-96 km/h) time even quicker than the Tesla’s 1.99 seconds.
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The interesting bit here is the roof, with its “80 square feet of highly efficient and patent-pending solar cells on the roof, sidelites, passenger doors, and fold-out ‘wings’.” The roof itself looks like about 6 x 8 ft or so, making a generous guess, and that would give you about half of 80 sq ft, so yeah, this car is going to look vastly different and take up a fair bit of space when it’s parked with all its panels out. But therein lies the reason why mainstream EVs don’t bother with solar; if you need that much area just to capture an outside maximum of 60 miles’ worth of range per day, it’s going to be a challenge to mount those panels in a way that’s attractive, secure, convenient and sturdy.
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It’s a neat looking machine in these renders, and Humble Motors says it’s already sold more than US$20 million worth at a price of US$109,000 excluding taxes and options. The company says it’s planning to hit production at the start of 2024. Meanwhile, you can check the best luxury SUVs.
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