The World’s Fastest Solar Car

Some con­grat­u­la­tions are in order for a team of stu­dents from The Uni­ver­si­ty of New South Wales. Ear­li­er this month, they set a world record for the fastest solar-pow­ered car. Their car, trav­el­ing 88km/h (or 54 miles per hour), broke the pre­vi­ous record of 79 km/h. We’re not talk­ing about NASCAR speeds, to be sure. But the research that went into mak­ing the UNSW car could mean big things for future gen­er­a­tions of green-pow­ered cars. Wired has more on the sto­ry, plus some pho­tos…


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  • K.Raman says:

    Solar Pow­er fastest car shown is an excel­lent feat. Con­grats. to the team which worked on this.

  • Pat says:

    They first invest on uni­ver­si­ty research and then they nev­er imple­ment this in the indus­try because they want vehi­cles to depend on oil

    just like the elec­tric car by gen­er­al motors

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