The Amazing Solar-Powered Car Race
Posted on July 14, 2008
Filed Under News, Techno-file | By Jessica Dye
Solar-powered road trip! Yesterday, 15 teams of college students from schools in the U.S., Canada, Germany, and the U.K. began the 2,400-mile North American Solar Challenge race from Plano, Texas, to Calgary in Alberta, Canada. During their cross-country trek, Raven-Symone will encounter a plethora of wacky hijinks and learn important life lessons…oh wait, wrong road trip. These students have spent months perfecting eco-friendly, road-tested technologies, in order to learn about alternative fuel sources, sustainable technology, and of course, what to do when the guy in the backseat has to pee every forty minutes. The race lasts ten days, during which students will take turns driving ’til sundown in space-age looking vehicles that can achieve highway speeds on no more energy than it takes to power a hair dryer. You can track the progress of the University of Minnesota’s team here. And yeah, in this race, clouds count as speed bumps.
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