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Japanese team wins solar car challenge
Canberra :: Australia | about 1 month ago
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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...
Tags: South Australia, solar cars, Tokai University, Adelaide, Australian, Tokai Challenger, finish line, Darwin, kilometre race
Solar car winner expected this afternoon
Adelaide :: Australia | about 1 month ago
Credibility Adelaide finish line of the 2009 World Solar Challenge later this afternoon. The cars, run only on the sun's rays, left Darwin on Sunday for the 3000km cross-continent journey and run only in daylight hours. Leader Tokai Challenger, run by the Tokai...
Tags: Tokai University, Tokai Challenger, finishing line, solar cars
World solar car race begins in Australia
Darwin :: Australia | about 1 month ago
Credibility The cars left Darwin in hot and humid weather at about 8:30 am (2300 GMT Saturday) on the journey that is expected to end mid-week in the South Australian city of Adelaide. "We had 32 vehicles start this morning," Mike Drewer, a spokesman for the World...
Tags: South Australian, solar cars
Brits battle Aussies in solar car race
Adelaide :: Australia | about 1 month ago
Credibility A team from Cambridge University has entered the race for the first time and with the backing of new Formula One champion Jenson Button, has immediately been listed among the favourites. The 3,000km race from Darwin to Adelaide gets underway on Sunday...
Tags: solar cars, Adelaide, Darwin
High school solar car competition hums along on the Texas Motor Speedway 2:15 PM CT
Fort Worth :: TX :: USA | 4 months ago
Credibility The roar of revving engines at Texas Motor Speedway was replaced today with a soft hum of race cars powered by batteries and the sun. High school pit crews fiddled with solar cells and circuits at the 14th annual Dell-Winston School Solar Car Challenge.
Tags: texas motor, Texas, motor speedway, solar cars
Solar cars glide to finish line
Calgary :: Canada | about 1 year ago
Credibility ET University of Michigan team members run with their solar car as it crosses the finish line to win the North American Solar Challenge. (Jeff McIntosh/Canadian Press) Hundreds of Calgarians lined city streets on Tuesday to watch 15 solar-powered cars...
Tags: Michigan State University, solar cars, finished lined, powered cars, ET University of Michigan, cars race
Solar cars race to promote renewable technologies
Sioux Falls :: SD :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility Even as U.S. oil refiners scramble to increase the flow of Canadian crude from Alberta to Texas, a caravan of futuristic solar cars is racing that 2,400-mile route in reverse to show what transportation could look like without a drop of oil or gas...The...
Tags: solar cars
Solar car builders put bright ideas in motion at Texas Motor Speedway
Dallas :: TX :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility Local/State Videos High school students from across the country tossed aside worries about miles per gallon as they developed their own solar cars to compete in the Dell-Winston School Solar Car Challenge this week at Texas Motor Speedway. The competition,...
Tags: solar car, solar cars, texas motor, motor speedway
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