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<\/p>\nSolar Team Eindhoven drove its solar ambulance Stella Juva more than 800km across Kenya with Amref Health Africa, and found it generated more energy than it used while running an X-ray machine, ultrasound scanner and vaccine fridge at a clinic with no electricity. The vehicle is returning to the Netherlands and funding is the obstacle.<\/p>\n
A solar ambulance built by Dutch students drove more than 800km across Kenya and made more electricity than it used. Amref Health Africa ran the test<\/a> with them.<\/p>\n It is not an ambulance in the usual sense. It carries an X-ray machine, an ultrasound scanner and a refrigerator for keeping vaccines cold, and it goes to the patient rather than the hospital.<\/p>\n The builders are 23 students from Eindhoven University of Technology<\/a> and two other institutions, Digital Trends reported<\/a>. The vehicle is called Stella Juva.<\/p>\n The route mattered more than the distance. It included hours on dusty clay roads and a clinic at Mosiro in the Narok region, which has no electricity at all.<\/p>\n The finding is the useful part. Parked, with every piece of medical equipment running at once, it generated more energy than it consumed.<\/p>\n \u201cStella Juva reacted even better than we had expected,<\/em>\u201d said Isabella Wanningen of Solar Team Eindhoven. Panels on the roof charge it while driving, and more fold out when it stops.<\/p>\n No patients were treated during the trial. The team and Amref estimated that around 200 people could have been seen over two days.<\/p>\n This is not the team\u2019s first long test. TNW followed an earlier Eindhoven solar car through 1,000km of desert in Morocco.<\/p>\n The lineage runs further back than that. The team has been building solar vehicles since 2013, and five alumni went on to found Lightyear.<\/p>\n That company is the cautionary half of the story. It halted production of its \u20ac250K solar car to concentrate on a cheaper one.<\/p>\n Stella Juva now goes back to the Netherlands. The obstacle is not the engineering, it is who pays for the next one.<\/p>\n Europe has money pointed at roughly this. The Global Gateway package commits at least 2.625B euros to health<\/a> in Africa, across vaccines, manufacturing and health systems.<\/p>\n None of it is aimed at a vehicle. A student team has shown the clinic can drive to the patient, and nobody has a line for that.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. Follow us on\u00a0Google News<\/a><\/span>\u00a0too, click on the star and choose us from your favorites.<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n If you want to read more like this article, you can visit our Technology category.<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n