A solar mobile clinic has successfully driven 800km across Kenya
Solar Team Eindhoven drove its solar ambulance Stella Juva more than 800km across Kenya with Amref Health Africa, and found it generated more energy than it used while running an X-ray machine, ultrasound scanner and vaccine fridge at a clinic with no electricity. The vehicle is returning to the Netherlands and funding is the obstacle.
A solar ambulance built by Dutch students drove more than 800km across Kenya and made more electricity than it used. Amref Health Africa ran the test with them.
It is not an ambulance in the usual sense. It carries an X-ray machine, an ultrasound scanner and a refrigerator for keeping vaccines cold, and it goes to the patient rather than the hospital.
The builders are 23 students from Eindhoven University of Technology and two other institutions, Digital Trends reported. The vehicle is called Stella Juva.
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