The Sion solar-powered car from Sono Motors will not go into production, but the company's solar technology will live on.
— a German crowdfunded startup that promised to bring a solar powered electric car called the Sion to market — announced its first prototype would be unveiled on July 27, 2017. It was an affordable electric car with solar panels embedded in the hood, roof, and hatchback but that wasn’t the only innovation the Sion promised.
In the year it was founded, Sono Motors secured funding for two functional prototypes thanks to two crowdfunding campaigns — €549,995 from 1,686 backers on the internet platform Indiegogo and €1.8 million on Seedrs. The year after the prototype was revealed, the company took the Sion on a “Despite more than 45,000 reservations and pre-orders for the Sion, we were compelled to react to the ongoing financial market instability and streamline our business. Given also the resource intensive nature of the Sion program, including personnel requirements, we are now implementing a significant cost reduction program. This includes the redundancy of approximately 300 employees.
“Our revenue generating solar business has been going from strength to strength and we are currently already working as a development-partner and supplier with companies across ten countries in Europe, Asia, and the US,” Hahn says in his blog post.
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