{"id":280614,"date":"2024-01-16T15:36:41","date_gmt":"2024-01-16T15:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/lightyear-shelves-solar-ev-plans-hires-executives-to-spearhead-solar-systems-for-other-oems\/"},"modified":"2024-01-16T15:36:41","modified_gmt":"2024-01-16T15:36:41","slug":"lightyear-shelves-solar-ev-plans-hires-executives-to-spearhead-solar-systems-for-other-oems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/lightyear-shelves-solar-ev-plans-hires-executives-to-spearhead-solar-systems-for-other-oems\/","title":{"rendered":"Lightyear shelves solar EV plans, hires executives to spearhead solar systems for other OEMs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2024\/01\/lightyear-shelves-solar-ev-plans-hires-executives-to-spearhead-solar-systems-for-other-oems.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nStar-crossed startup Lightyear has finally thrown in the towel on attempting to bring its long-promised solar EVs to market \u2013 at least one donning its own badge and design language.  The startup\u2019s founding CEO, Lex Hoefsfloot, has been replaced as the born-again startup pivots toward solar panel development to be implemented on other companies\u2019 vehicles. That, frankly, is just not as sexy. <a href=\"https:\/\/electrek.co\/2024\/01\/16\/lightyear-shelves-solar-ev-plans-hires-executives-solar-systems-other-oems\/\" target=\"blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/lightyear-shelves-solar-ev-plans-hires-executives-to-spearhead-solar-systems-for-other-oems\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":280615,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-280614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-electrek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}