New “lock” in the automotive industry – which manufacturer lowered the curtains?

Nearly a month after making an impressive debut at the Las Vegas Tech Show, a promising manufacturing company has entered bankruptcy, suspending payments to its employees.

It’s bad news for electric vehicle fans, as it’s one of the most promising solar car manufacturers rolls “lowers”entering into bankruptcy.

This is the company behind the popular solar car Lightyear, which although ready to go on the production line, Official premiere at the Las Vegas Tech Show At the beginning of the year, it seems to be moving into the history locker.

twenty-four hours ago, The news that Lightyear is suspending production of its first electric car in order to develop an affordable four-wheeled electric vehicle has shocked the whole worldHowever, no one could have imagined that the Dutch company, which aspired to change the map of the global automotive industry, would go bankrupt.

The Dutch start-up has already suspended payments to its employees and its future is now uncertain, despite the fact that it is Lightyear was a breath of fresh air from the production line.

«As announced on January 23rd, we had to submit a request to start suspending payments With regard to Atlas Technologies BV, our company responsible for the production of Lightyear,” the company said in a statement.

Although the bankruptcy filing relates to that company that undertook the construction of the vehicle, The risk of dragging the entire project down, leaving the roughly 500 employees involved in it on its way, is plain to see.

Notably, Lightyear’s first solar car project has been ambitious since The market price was close to 300 thousand euros.

This was the reason The Dutch company made the decision to focus on more affordable and sustainable projectswhich is likely to wait after filing a bankruptcy petition with the Dutch authorities.

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