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Tokai University Team Wins World Solar Challenge

Posted by timothy on from the congratulations-all-around dept.

Mike_EE_U_of_I writes "My wife and I went to Australia for the World Solar Challenge. My wife put up video of the start, and now an interview with one of the drivers of the winning team. Congratulations Tokai University!"

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  1. Some more info by Feinu · · Score: 2
    Summary is remarkably uninformative, adding nothing of interest that isn't in the heading.

    They took 32 hours and 45 minutes to drive their car, Tokai Challenger2, 3021 kilometres on solar power averaging a speed of 91.54 kilometres per hour.

    Team Nuon from the Netherlands was close behind:

    Team Nuon arrived in Angle Vale at 2.12 pm Darwin time in a time of 33.5 hours with an average speed of 88.62 kilometres per hour.

    Sourced from this pdf

  2. Fairly impressive stuff by inflex · · Score: 2

    I live in the Northern Australia parts and if there's one thing we certainly don't have a shortage of, it's damned hot weather with a lot of sunshine, so solar really is easy for us to use/access, wish more of us were doing so.

    Almost 100km/hr is quite a decent rate, note that it's the speed-limit for most of the roads in Australia (some places allow 110km/hr, Northern Territory has some "unlimited" zones but that's a bit of a misnomer).

    Now, I wonder if they'll start adding new demands on the cars such as "Must run air-conditioning" or similar loads.