{
  "id": 17730,
  "url": "https://thenextweb.com/news/bmw-clemson-deep-orange-17-luminetta-solar-ev-energy-positive",
  "title": "BMW challenged students to build an EV that makes more energy than it uses. They covered it in 1,700 solar cells and it works.",
  "summary": "BMW challenged graduate students at Clemson University to build an electric vehicle that generates more energy than it consumes in a day of urban commuting. Two years later, they have a working prototype. Deep Orange 17, which BMW calls the Luminetta, is a two-seat solar EV covered in more than 1,700 photovoltaic cells developed with […] This story continues at The Next Web",
  "authors": "Darius Popa",
  "category": "news",
  "topics": "children-education,environment",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-08-07T18:08:27.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-08-09T05:10:05.170Z",
  "source_slug": "x-the-next-web-ai",
  "source_name": "The Next Web AI",
  "source_homepage": "https://thenextweb.com/topic/artificial-intelligence",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/17730",
  "original_url": "https://thenextweb.com/news/bmw-clemson-deep-orange-17-luminetta-solar-ev-energy-positive",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
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