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Kim Gu-Han of Universitat Dulsburg-Essen, Germany, wants to build a solar-powered car that can not only recharge itself while sitting, but also run your house with its extra juice. The car concept, which he calls the Helios, is a four-wheeled, off-road vehicle that looks basically like a dune buggy. It’s open cockpit design, prominent roll bar, and four large wheels and tires make it look like it has “off road” written all over it.

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Who Killed the Electric Car? General Motors, of course, that’s what the movie said. Right? Well, those GM EV1s are now quite the collector’s item. Most of them were returned to General Motors and destroyed, since they were leased (not owned) and at the end of the lease, they were still GM’s property. Because the car was a financial failure and because the oil crunch of the 80s was very much over, there wasn’t much call to continue making an electric car. So GM discontinued the series.

Read More: Used EV1 Sells for Almost Half a Million Dollars