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Japanese team wins solar car challenge

Canberra : Australia | about 1 month ago  
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  • Driver operates the Tokai Challenger solar car in the Australian outback on its way to winning the 2009 Global Green Challenge
    Driver operates the Tokai Challenger solar car in the Australian ...
    Source: Reuters
  • Handout picture of Tokai Challenger solar car in a town in the Australian outback on its way to winning the 2009 Global Green Challenge
    Handout picture of Tokai Challenger solar car in a town in the ...
    Source: Reuters
  • Driver Shinzuka of Japan celebrates his team, Tokai Challenger, winning the 2009 Global Green Challenge, near Adelaide
    Driver Shinzuka of Japan celebrates his team, Tokai Challenger, ...
    Source: Reuters
Driver operates the Tokai Challenger solar car in the Australian ...
The Tokai Challenger took the lead on the first day of the 3000 kilometre race, which began last Sunday. Race officials say the team suffered a flat tire today near the Crystal Brook rail overpass less than 200 kilometres from the finish. The win breaks a four race winning streak by the Dutch Nuon team....
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  • News Source: The Age | about 1 month ago
    The Tokai University car won the 3,021 kilometre race from Darwin to Adelaide on Wednesday afternoon, and completed the run into the city centre on Thursday morning. It averaged just over 100km/h for the journey, just short of the race record. The...
  • News Source: Japan Today | about 1 month ago
    A one-passenger solar car from Tokai University won the 2009 Global Green Challenge on Wednesday, beating 30 other teams from 13 countries in a grueling 3,000 kilometer race from the top to the bottom of Australia. Running since 1987, the race is...
  • News Source: Sydney Morning Herald | about 1 month ago
    Organisers said the Tokai Challenger crossed the finish line in Adelaide, South Australia, at 3:39 pm local time, after 29 hours and 49 minutes' racing following Sunday's departure from the northern city of Darwin. The futuristic Tokai put in a near-...
  • News Source: The Age | about 1 month ago
    The $160,000 Tesla Roadster, the only one of its kind in Australia and owned by Adelaide-based internet tycoon Simon Hackett, drove 501 kilometres from Alice Springs in the Northern Territory to Marla in South Australia solely on battery power on...
  • News Source: Wellington Dominion | about 1 month ago
    Britain's Cambridge University Eco Racing team's car "Endeavour" travels south along the Stuart Highway near Dunmarra and, inset, one of the driver on the winning Tokai University team, Kota Tokuda, works on their car. The Japanese car Tokai...
  • News Source: Chicago Tribune | about 1 month ago
    A solar car made by students from Japan's Tokai University was on Wednesday named the winner of a 3,000 km (1,864 miles) race across the Australian outback which aimed to show that green cars can also be mean. The Tokai Challenger crossed the finish...
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