Soleva – Solar electric van
by Curdin W., Matthieu B., and Soleva Solar Team
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ar supporters, Since the success of the crowdfunding, we have been a little less active on the networks. However, apart from the few weeks of well-deserved holidays, we were very active in the construction of our prototype. We have been able to order the main components for the conversion of the van, including the batteries and the electric motor second hand, as well as the whole control system thanks to your contributions. Currently, our technical team is working hard to integrate them into the vehicle. In the meantime, all the rewards from the crowdfunding on wemakeit should have reached you, except of course for those that will take place at a later stage of the project, for which we will contact you individually. We are very proud and happy to announce that we have won the Innovation Booster EnergyLab competition of InnoSuisse and the University of Lucerne. The prize money of 20’000.- has allowed us to cover the remaining budget for the prototype. Please feel free to follow us on social networks, including Instagram, Linkedin and Facebook, to stay updated with the progress. Once again, thank you so much for your support which has already catapulted us so far in our project. We will keep you posted on the progress.
Your Soleva team: Max, Matthieu, Quentin, Tobia, Sara, Sévane, Roman, Andreas, Curdin
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Hello, The entire Soleva team would like to thank you for your contributions to our crowdfunding campaign. These last 5 weeks have been intense and extremely exciting and we would like to thank all the 131 backers for your incredible support!! We will take a few days off, before redoubling our efforts for the next stages of the project. We will keep you regularly updated on the progress and situation.
Counterparts will be offered gradually, some of which require the prototype to be completed and tested before they can be offered. This may take some time, especially at the moment, as there is a lot of uncertainty about the timing of orders for certain components or devices.
Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions, you can reach us at the following address: info@soleva.org
Thank you again, we wish you a nice summer holiday, The Soleva Team Matthieu, Quentin, Tobia, Sara, Sévane, Roman, Andreas, Curdin
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Hey all, there are now less than 2 days left in our crowdfunding campaign and we are taking up the challenge to reach our second goal (CHF 35’000.-). It would be great to achieve it and would allow us to complete the transformation. There are a number of cool rewards left, from an exclusive test drive to your own solar panel, so it’s the last chance to remind people around you if they still wanted to support the project but maybe didn’t yet have the time.
In any way, we would like to already thank all the contributors. We are insanely happy of your huge support for the project and are very grateful. Your Soleva Team
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Hello everyone, Last night we reached our first goal of CHF 20’000 - the campaign is already a success and gave already a huge media coverage of our project and vision (interviews RTS radio & RougeFM can be found on our networks). However, we still have 20 days to try to reach our second goal of CHF 35’000. Every contribution counts to get there. If you want to support us, here are some ideas:
- Publish a post on your social networks;
- Do you know someone famous who could participate and communicate it? Now is the time to contact them. relay our posts on LinkedIn: https://wemakeit.com/projects/soleva-solar-electric-van
- Talk to your company, they might be interested in sponsoring. Thanks in advance and have a great weekend, The Soleva team
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We are now at a third of the campaign and have surpassed the 80% of the first goal! This is overwhelming and only possible thanks to you, so a big thank you to all of you who have participated in this campaign or who have relayed the information.
We are also pleased to announce that we have added a new reward: a special Soleva edition wine from the local and family-owned vineyard at Mont-sur-Rolle of Sévane Bercher.
Would you like to support us to reach 100%? Here’s how: follow, share and like the posts on the Soleva LinkedIn page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/solevasolarvan and talk about it around you by sharing the information. In the meantime, we could make significant progress on the technical side and managed to remove all thermal and dirty components of the prototype vehicle.
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Bonjour à tous, Un grand merci pour votre soutien, nous venons de dépasser les 50% de la première étape de notre campagne de crowdfunding et c’est grâce à vous! Toute l’équipe de SOLEVA vous remercie Pour continuer à doper notre campagne, nous vous proposons de contribuer aujourd’hui à notre communication.
Idéalement, si vous pouviez faire un post aujourd’hui avec l’image ci-jointe (50% reached) sur vos différents réseaux sociaux, en intégrant un mot qui explique pourquoi vous soutenez notre projet, ce serait génial. Cela permettra une visibilité groupée forte sur la même journée.
Vous pouvez aussi simplement aimer et partager le post que nous allons réaliser dans la journée pour annoncer cette étape (notre page linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/solevavanproject).
Vous avez des suggestions pour nous faire gagner en visibilité (des contacts média par exemple), n’hésitez pas à nous les proposer.
Nous avons des contreparties parfaites pour des entreprises (visite, conférence, sponsoring). N’hésitez pas à en parler si vous pensez à des entreprises qui pourraient être intéressées.
Merci d’avance à tous et nous vous souhaitons une belle journée, Toute l’équipe SOLEVA: Max, Tobia, Sévane, Matthieu, Quentin, Andreas, Roman, Curdin & Sara
Hello everyone! Thanks to your amazing support, we just surpassed 50% of the first stage of our crowdfunding campaign in the first week of the campaign! The whole SOLEVA team thanks you a lot. To continue to boost our campaign, we propose that you contribute today to our communication.
Ideally, if you could make a post today with the attached image (50% reached) on your different social networks, integrating a word that explains why you support our project, it would be great. This will allow strong group visibility on the same day.
You can also simply like and share the post we will be making later today to announce this step (our LinkedIn page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/solevavanproject).
If you have any suggestions on how to increase our visibility (media contacts for example), please feel free to suggest them.
We have perfect counterparts for companies (visit, sponsoring, conference). Do not hesitate to talk about it if you think of companies that could be interested.
Thank you in advance to all and we wish you a sunny day, All the SOLEVA team: Max, Tobia, Sévane, Matthieu, Quentin, Andreas, Roman, Curdin & Sara
Guten Tag an alle! Dank eurer unglaublichen Unterstützung, haben wir soeben die 50% der ersten Etappe unserer Crowdfunding-Kampagne erreicht! Das ist ein riesen Erfolg und das haben wir euch zu verdanken. Um unsere Kampagne weiter anzukurbeln, schlagen wir Ihnen vor, heute einen Beitrag zu unserer Kommunikation zu leisten.
Idealerweise würden Sie heute einen Beitrag mit dem beigefügten Bild (50% reached) auf Ihren verschiedenen sozialen Netzwerken veröffentlichen und dabei ein Wort einfügen, das erklärt, warum Sie unser Projekt unterstützen, das wäre großartig. Dies wird eine starke gebündelte Sichtbarkeit am selben Tag ermöglichen.
Sie können auch einfach den Beitrag, den wir im Laufe des Tages erstellen werden, um diesen Schritt anzukündigen, liken und teilen (unsere Linkedin-Seite: https://www.linkedin.com/company/solevavanproject).
Wenn Sie Vorschläge haben, wie wir unsere Sichtbarkeit erhöhen können (z. B. Medienkontakte), schlagen Sie uns diese bitte vor.
Wir haben perfekte Gegenleistungen für Unternehmen (Besuch, Sponsoring, Konferenz). Bitte zögern Sie nicht, dies zu erwähnen, wenn Ihnen Unternehmen einfallen, die daran interessiert sein könnten.
Wir danken Ihnen allen im Voraus und wünschen Ihnen einen sonnigen Tag, Das gesamte Soleva-Team: Max, Tobia, Sévane, Matthieu, Quentin, Andreas, Roman, Curdin & Sara
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Hello everyone,
Great first 24 hours with 17 contributors and more than CHF 4’000 already collected. We thank you for your support. We will do our best to continue on this pace and reach our goals. We invite you to share your support for the project on your social networks and tell others about it, by email, WhatsApp or otherwise. A big thank you and we are already looking forward to the next 39 days.
The whole Soleva team!