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Missouri Wins American Solar Challenge

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the sunny-day-fun-time-contest dept.

dagoalieman writes "The University of Missouri - Rolla won this year's 2300 mile American Solar Challenge. The roughly 339lb car (517lb with driver) with 1500 watts of power won by nearly 5 hours - here's the final results. UMR has now won two out of the past three races, finishing second in the last race, to Michigan. Congrats, and good luck to them in the World Solar Challenge!"

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  1. In other news by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    CEO's of the Big Three yawned in unison when told about Missouri's victory.

    One of them asked "Was the winner an SUV that runs on gasoline?" When told the answer, he replied "whatever."

  2. Bad For The Environment by tds67 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I don't think these Universities should be promoting solar power. The sun is a finite resource. In about 4 billion years it'll be done for. Wasting its energy like this is not helpful.

  3. Solar? by Tumbleweed · · Score: 4, Funny

    So I guess that means no 'VTEC' sticker. Too bad.

  4. As a former UMR student, I can say.... by anonymousman77 · · Score: 5, Funny

    We had no women, but we sure had a sweet-assed solar car. =)

    1. Re:As a former UMR student, I can say.... by Kevinv · · Score: 4, Funny

      See what you can accomplish when there are no women clouding your thoughts? 8-)

      Another UMR grad ('91)