Usagevpn.com – In parts of sub-Saharan Africa, the distance between a patient and basic diagnostic equipment can stretch beyond what any conventional vehicle can bridge. Unreliable grids, scarce fuel, and roads that dissolve into dirt after a single rainy season leave millions without access to even routine screenings. Into that gap steps a machine that no one expected to exist until now: a road-legal ambulance whose primary energy source is the sun itself.

Stella Juva, built by student engineers at Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands, has completed its first full-scale field deployment. The vehicle functions as a fully electric ambulance with solar panels integrated across its bodywork. A 50 kWh battery stores daytime solar harvest, giving the ambulance enough stored charge to continue driving and powering onboard medical systems well after sunset. The design philosophy inverts the traditional ambulance model: rather than hauling a patient to a distant…