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Aussie Team Smashes Land Speed Record For Solar-Powered Cars

Posted by Soulskill on from the with-authority dept.

snowdon writes "A record which has stood since 1987, set by General Motors, has been broken (YouTube video) by a university team. The land speed record for a solar powered car was 78km/h, and now stands at 88km/h despite the cloudy conditions... If only Doc Brown had used the metric system!"

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  1. Whats more amazing is... by noisyinstrument · · Score: 5, Funny

    that it was only making about one point twenty one kilowatts.

  2. Re:Cheating by using the Australian sun.. by MichaelSmith · · Score: 4, Funny

    which everyone who visits here assures me is so much brighter than their part of the world.

    Thanks to ozone depletion we get more energy out of the sun.

    Seriously its the dry air. It absorbs less solar radiation so more hits the ground.

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