Solor cars do a 2,500 mile trip!

[Global Warming]

This is pretty amazing!
http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Slideshows/News/Environment/050803_solarCar_tease.300w.jpg
"The university teams' challenge was this: Build a race car that runs on a measly 1,000 watts — about what a hair dryer puts out — cruises at highway speeds and carries a driver 2,500 miles from Austin, Texas, to Calgary, Alberta."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8737930/

[RC45]

Students and experts talk of using solar cells to assist cars, perhaps providing energy to cool off the interior on a hot day while a car is parked.


Weren't Mazda doing this 15 years ago with a solar powered sunroof vent?

The University of Michigan, the team with the deepest pockets, ended up winning a close race, just 12 minutes ahead of the University of Minnesota.


And as always - the guys with the biggest cheque book make the fastest car... :twisted:

[corpse_grinder0]

true, but still cool none the less

[Vansquish]

And for the fourth time in history, the race was won by the University of Michigan's solar car team. They averaged 46.2mph for the whole distance, something which is fairly impressive considering Canada isn't exactly flat and sunny all the time. 2500 miles in 53 hours 59 minutes and 43 seconds. Now it's on to the World Solar Challenge in Australia in September where Umich has placed 3rd behind two professional (not college) teams in the last years.

GO BLUE!!!!