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Arizona Daily Star has an article mentioning: "... The University of Arizona’s Parking and Transportation Services has a new truck which runs on electric and solar power. The oddly-named vehicle ..."
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Gizmag has an article mentioning: "... Solar car travels more than 12,500 miles to break world distance record ..."
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KVOA.com has an article mentioning: "... UA solar car will compete in the Shell Eco-Marathon in California. This is not your average senior project. 'We'd like to be able to show that ..."
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Universe Today has an article mentioning: "... to navigate when its panels were reconfigured into makeshift solar sails! Take time to honor the 1890 birth of Spencer Jones on this date, the first to prove Earth had a slightly irregular rotation, and to ..."
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Gladstone Observer has an article mentioning: "... The native-born Dane who moved to Australia more than 40 years ago built the first solar-powered car and started the Solar Challenge Car race ..."
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The Low Carbon Economy has an article mentioning: "... solar powered car 50 times more energy efficient than a petrol vehicle will be competing in an endurance race to take the title of world's greenest ..."
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JLM Pacific Epoch has an article mentioning: "... Solarbe.com. The project received investment of RMB 500 million and is expected to produce 100MW of solar cells and modules, as well as 2,000 solar-powered cars, after it begins production in late 2009, said the report ..."
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Arizona Daily Wildcat has an article mentioning: "... Engineers design and build unique solar car for competition ..."
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Business Weekly has an article mentioning: "... is obviously an area in which we can have a big impact on climate change." Bethany is an upgrade of the prototype 'Affinity', which became the first solar-powered car to drive legally on UK roads and was driven from Lands End to John O'Groats in June ..."
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Green Muze has an article mentioning: "... The Sunseeker solar airplane. Image courtesy of Solar Flight ..."
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TECH.BLORGE.com has an article mentioning: "... Several years have been devoted to designing various prototypes and researching the best materials and manufacturing processes for producing the solar planes. ..."
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Popular Mechanics has an article mentioning: "... cells and runs as long as the sun shines. PM's Detroit editor Larry Webster goes behind the wheel of the Continuum, the University of Michigan's sun-powered car ..."
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TheGreenCarWebsite.co.uk has an article mentioning: "... and will be run from Darwin to Adelaide in October. The event will feature some of the greenest cars around including hybrids, electric cars and solar-powered vehicles ..."
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TheGreenCarWebsite.co.uk has an article mentioning: "... How far do you think a solar powered car can travel? Here in the UK, perhaps not too far… say halfway down the M1 before a cloudy sky means it splutters to a halt ..."
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Carz Unlimited has an article mentioning: "... Ideal for use on golf courses, hotels, resorts, parks and municipalities, the solar powered carts have a state of the art SolarDrive roof made up of crystalline solar cells, which charge while they are driving, extending the ..."
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Daily Review Online has an article mentioning: "... After three seasons on a drive to set the world's distance record for a solar-powered vehicle, this addiction to sunlight has turned da Luz into a daydreamy vagabond — over his head in debt, at the mercy of ..."
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TMC Net has an article mentioning: "... Tim's solar-powered mobile car wash started a couple years ago when he was cleaning cars for Williamsburg, Va., residents. He often spent half a day there ..."
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DVICE has an article mentioning: "... Solar car travels more than 12,500 miles, breaking world distance record ..."
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ASEAN Automotive News has an article mentioning: "... They may as well call it the perpetual motion machine.\n\nSeriously, solar power can barely move a car (solar powered cars used in those solar races are so stripped down, it doesn\'t even look like a car) and they want to use solar power to conduct ..."
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Gizmodo.com has an article mentioning: "... The 2009 World Solar Challenge, taking place in Australia from October 25th to 31st, will see some of the most efficient solar vehicles in the world compete in a seven day, 2,000 miles race from Darwin to Adelaide. One of the competitors will be Eleanor, the new ..."
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TheNewsTribune.com has an article mentioning: "... Students from 35 Southland High Schools to Compete in Solar Cup™, World's Largest Solar Boat Event | TheNewsTribune.com | Tacoma, WA ..."
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Campus Technology has an article mentioning: "... Watt used Abaqus finite element analysis software to evaluate the realistic stress performance of the solar car's chassis. The team used the SolidWorks Associative Interface for Abaqus to transfer their SolidWorks model to Abaqus FEA to analyze the ..."
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Deccan Herald has an article mentioning: "... Postlethwaite turned up in a solar car to the premiere, which was also attended by actress Gillian Anderson, designer Vivienne Westwood on a bicycle and Energy and Climate Change ..."
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Energy Matters has an article mentioning: "... Solar powered car - Brethany ..."
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Cambridge Network has an article mentioning: "... team has used the experience gained from building the prototype vehicle, 'Affinity', in the new 'Bethany' design. Affinity was the first solar-powered car to drive legally on UK roads and the team drove it from Lands End to John O'Groats in June 2008. The team is now part way into the ..."
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Energy Matters has an article mentioning: "... MIT's solar powered car ..."
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TheGreenCarWebsite.co.uk has an article mentioning: "... Romag Holdings plc has unveiled the ‘PowerPark' â€" a solar car parking canopy made of PowerGlaz PV panels that will be targeted for car parks at airports, stations, supermarkets, shopping centres ..."
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eTaiwan News has an article mentioning: "... Postlethwaite turned up in a solar car to the premiere, which was also attended by actress Gillian Anderson, designer Vivienne Westwood - on a bicycle - and Energy and Climate ..."
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TAXI Design Network has an article mentioning: "... engineering students is using SolidWorks 3D CAD and Abaqus finite element analysis (FEA) software from Dassault Systèmes' SIMULIA brand to develop a solar-powered car they will race across Australia in the fall of ..."
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Mother Nature Network has an article mentioning: "... Begley showed up on 'The Simpsons' last night and was nearly hit by a solar-powered train while driving a solar-powered car during a solar eclipse ..."
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Ecorazzi has an article mentioning: "... The environmental activist/actor is shown driving his “Ed Begley Solar Car” when the eclipse hits — only to have it run out of juice on some train tracks. Thankfully, the train is solar-powered and stops ..."
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Fair Home has an article mentioning: "... The star and narrator, Pete Postlethwaite of The Usual Suspects fame, arrived by solar car, others on bikes ..."
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Alternative Energy Retailer magazine has an article mentioning: "... film had its premiere at London's Leicester Square in a solar-powered tent. Pete Postlethwaite, the star of the film, arrived at the premiere in a solar-powered car. The film, about an elderly man in 2055 who looks back at decades of environmental ruin, was also screened in 70 British cinemas via ..."
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AFP has an article mentioning: "... Postlethwaite turned up in a solar car to the premiere, which was also attended by actress Gillian Anderson, designer Vivienne Westwood ..."
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Adelaide Independent Weekly has an article mentioning: "... One of the stars, British actor Pete Postlethwaite arrived at the premiere in a solar-powered car ..."
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San Luis Obispo Tribune has an article mentioning: "... After moving in 1990 to Canada, the dream refused to die. Solar-powered cars were already out there, but he would build his own from scratch, take it on the road, push it into the record books, and spread the ..."
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Auto Racing Daily has an article mentioning: "... After three seasons on a drive to set the world’s distance record for a solar-powered vehicle, this addiction to sunlight has turned da Luz into a daydreamy vagabond — over his head in debt, at the mercy of ..."
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FOXBusiness has an article mentioning: "... students is using SolidWorks (R) 3D CAD and Abaqus finite element analysis (FEA) software from Dassault Systemes' SIMULIA brand to develop a solar-powered car they will race across Australia in the fall of 2009. More spaceship than road vehicle, the car's flat shape will feature a large ..."
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Mother Nature Network has an article mentioning: "... These 12 metal shafts sitting atop a hill in Cambridge, Ontario, comprise the solar-powered, interactive sculpture, Solar Collector, created by artists Matt Gorbet, Rob Gorbet, and Susan LK Gorbet. The structures move with the ..."
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Ten Links has an article mentioning: "... of Australia using only sunlight as fuel and to prove it, in the spirit of friendly competition against others with the same goal. New 2009 solar car race regulations require drivers to be seated in the vehicle in a radically more upright position an ultimately more practical design ..."
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Next Big Future has an article mentioning: "... with a slow, controllable speed of about 1 meter per minute. This deployment technology has been demonstrated by deploying a 400 m**2 (20 m square) solar sail in a vacuum environment at the NASA Plum Brook Facility. The technology is envisioned to provide a highly reliable rigidization structure ..."
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CNET News has an article mentioning: "... Eleanor, a solar-powered vehicle that MIT will compete with in the 2009 World Solar Challenge ..."
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All Cars Electric has an article mentioning: "... Solar cars at this point are mostly science/engineering experiments and are not for public consumption. However the progress they have made over the ..."
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Earth2Tech has an article mentioning: "... as you don’t need to fit a whole lot in your trunk. And as long as you don’t mind that it doesn’t actually have a trunk. The new solar car from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s ..."
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Inhabitat has an article mentioning: "... No worries. LG has also come up with the HFB-500 Bluetooth solar car kit which gives customers hands-free mobile use in a fully rechargeable solar unit ..."
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Gizmodo.com has an article mentioning: "... Click here to read more posts tagged SOLAR CARS ..."
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Gizmag has an article mentioning: "... with planes that carry pilots now starting to take to the skies. Based on glider/sailplane construction methods, the Sunseeker II is the only manned solar airplane flying in the world, and according to SolarFlight, it has logged more time in the air than all other manned solar powered airplanes ..."
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Cambridge Chronicle has an article mentioning: "... Last week, a team of MIT students unveiled a solar car that they will put to the test in an upcoming race across Australia called the World Solar Challenge ..."
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EcoGeek has an article mentioning: "... seven-day, 2,000-mile race across Australia. This year's model is called Eleanor and she crushes the stereotype that solar cars can only go slow ..."
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Daily Nexus has an article mentioning: "... Driver Marcelo da Luz’s journeys in a UFO-esque solar-powered car have taken him from the frozen Arctic Circle to the California coast. He recently stopped in Isla Vista on the final leg of his ..."
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AutoGuide.com has an article mentioning: "... Show, Swedish supercar maker Koenigsegg has revealed the Quant Concept car. Shaped like a sedan with the design of a Koenigsegg, the Quant is a a solar-powered electric car with 512hp and 527 ft-lbs of torque ..."
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All Cars Electric has an article mentioning: "... Solar Powered Cars ..."
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ITworld.com has an article mentioning: "... The university's Solar Electric Vehicle Team announced that it plans to enter the solar car in the World Solar Challenge race across Australia that's slated to be held in October. To get ready for that competition, the team is ..."
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