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Bernama has an article mentioning: "... Universiti Tenaga Nasional (UNITEN) Monday launched its second solar car project, Solar Ranger 2, to bring the university's innovation to the World Solar Challenge 2011 (WSC2011) in Australia ..."
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Green Muze has an article mentioning: "... forming an electronic control module, sensors and cameras, with the third holding the solar sail. After piggyback release from the launcher at 800kms (497miles), the four ..."
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Inventorspot has an article mentioning: "... explains it, a solar sail 'is a spacecraft propelled by sunlight. Whereas a conventional rocket is propelled by the thrust produced by its internal engine burn ..."
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KOHD has an article mentioning: "... local group of high school students working to build a solar car get some inspiration this weekend. The team of teenagers at the Trinity Lutheran School in Bend competed last year with their first ever ..."
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Treehugger has an article mentioning: "... sun-powered vehicle designed by Turkish students (left) won an award in Australia, while one of Turkey's new high-speed trains derailed. Photos by ..."
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MIT Technology Review (blog) has an article mentioning: "... prototype solar-powered airplane completed several important tests last Thursday and Friday ..."
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Manufacturers' Monthly has an article mentioning: "... Another global leader in its field, Solar Sailor Holdings, is building and supplying a solar sail for the Suntech World Expo tourist boat, due to be launched in time for the World Expo ..."
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Laser Focus World Magazine has an article mentioning: "... was unveiled at an event on Capitol Hill on the 75th anniversary of the birth of Planetary Society co-founder Carl Sagan, a long-time advocate of solar sailing ..."
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Digitaltrends.com has an article mentioning: "... Solar Impulse's solar-powered plane has completed initial tests and will see its first test flight in February of ..."
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DailyTech has an article mentioning: "... Captain Piccard Prepares to Take Flight in High-Tech Solar Plane ..."
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Green Muze has an article mentioning: "... just got a little closer to realizing the possibility of being the first solar plane to navigate around the world. The 3,527lb (1,600kg) solar plane recently completed runway tests in Switzerland when it achieved 10 knots ..."
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Monsters and Critics.com has an article mentioning: "... Kiel, Germany - The world\'s largest solar-powered boat, PlanetSolar, will not have sails. Instead of wind it will rely on the power of the sun to circumnavigate the world in 140 days ..."
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Reuters has an article mentioning: "... In 2003 he and the Solar Impulse Foundation announced their intention to fly a Solar Powered Plane around the world. In 2007, they started to build it ..."
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Sustainablog (blog) has an article mentioning: "... solar boat ..."
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Metro Canada - Calgary has an article mentioning: "... Team members from the University of Calgary's solar car team unveil their new solar race car in Calgary yesterday, which will compete in the 2010 American Solar Challenge ..."
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SatNews Publishers has an article mentioning: "... QinetiQ's Zephyr UAS Solar Powered Flight A 'Yes' In Yuma ..."
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CleanTechnica has an article mentioning: "... announced their intention to fly a Solar Powered Plane around the world. In 2007, they started to build it ..."
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CCTV has an article mentioning: "... car wash service in his community. The service was provided by college graduate Zhang and his two friends, who invented their own "mobile solar-powered car washing machine ..."
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The Planetary Society has an article mentioning: "... life? Bill Nye returns to his regular commentary while Bruce Betts joins Mat Kaplan for a What's Up! night sky tour, the awarding of a Cosmos 1 Solar Sail jacket, and a ..."
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Inhabitat (blog) has an article mentioning: "... sustainable design, green design, solar powered airplane, alternative energy, renewable energy, solar impulse, solar power, aircraft, airplane ..."
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CTV.ca has an article mentioning: "... Team members from the University of Calgary's solar car team unveil their new solar race car in Calgary, Monday, Nov. 23, 2009 which will compete in the 2010 American Solar Challenge. (Jeff ..."
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CMU The Tartan Online has an article mentioning: "... Pictured is a solar sail inside a vacuum chamber, which will be tested to see if it can withstand the conditions of outer space. Solar sails will use the energy ..."
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RedOrbit has an article mentioning: "... Solar Plane Flies Longer Than Any Other ..."
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Business Green has an article mentioning: "... prototype of the world's first solar-powered aeroplane had its initial runway outing yesterday in Switzerland, hitting speeds of up to five knots and covering 2km ..."
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News In Tech (blog) has an article mentioning: "... It has been revealed that the debut flight of the world's first solar powered plane will take place in February, with initial checks beginning to take place. The Solar Impulse plane, which is due to attempt a ..."
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BBC News has an article mentioning: "... The prototype of a solar-powered plane destined for a record round-the-world journey will make its first trip across a runway on Thursday and Friday ..."
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OSU - The Lantern has an article mentioning: "... OSU students from across multiple disciplines are teaming up to give the kids at Camp Mary Orton some brand-new toys: solar-powered cars ..."
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San Gabriel Valley Tribune has an article mentioning: "... Monte High students and students across the Valley do have an opportunity to get their hands dirty after class through a program to build and race solar-powered boats ..."
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The Space Review has an article mentioning: "... The Planetary Society hopes to launch LightSail-1, the first in a three-spacecraft series of solar sail missions, as soon as late 2010. (credit: The Planetary Society ..."
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Opelika Auburn News has an article mentioning: "... Although Bhavnani has built a solar house and several solar cars while at AU, he said relying 100 percent on solar energy will not work ..."
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ABC News has an article mentioning: "... Dream of Solar Sailing in Space Lives on in New Project ..."
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Hamilton College The Spectator has an article mentioning: "... Experimental Solar Sail Could Herald a New Age of Space Exploration ..."
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Quality Magazine has an article mentioning: "... The World Solar Challenge is the premier solar car event. In addition to three other U.S.-based teams, the race included entrants from nine other countries from around the world ..."
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DailyTech has an article mentioning: "... The solar sail will unfold once in orbit and hopefully catch the sun's light, helping it to acclerate ..."
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Malaysia Star has an article mentioning: "... Solar powered car, 'Tokai Challenger' from Japan's Tokai University won the ninth edition of the World Solar Challenge 2009 that ended here Saturday ..."
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MetalMiner has an article mentioning: "... and beta particle radiation detectors as a light-tight radiation window, but being used experimentally in a privately funded project to create a solar sail ..."
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Laser Focus World Magazine has an article mentioning: "... OSA Student Chapter Solar Car Races (photos courtesy Nikolay Makarov ..."
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Softpedia has an article mentioning: "... The Planetary Society has again announced plans of testing a solar sail prototype, which it hopes to have built in a spacecraft, and then launched by the end of next year. The mission would essentially attempt ..."
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Today's Zaman has an article mentioning: "... TÜ students' solar-powered automobile ARIBA IV received the Best Newcomer award in Australia ..."
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Scientific American has an article mentioning: "... exert a force on the sail surface, gently accelerating the spacecraft to potentially great speed over time. The Planetary Society estimates that a solar sail could speed a spacecraft to more than 200,000 kilometers per hour in three years' time ..."
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Christian Science Monitor has an article mentioning: "... An artists rendering of a solar sail is shown in this undated publicity image from The Planetary Society released to Reuters. Backers of a failed mission to launch the ..."
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New Scientist has an article mentioning: "... to demonstrate the viability of solar sail propulsion, which has ..."
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Renewable Energy Focus has an article mentioning: "... Solar Team Twente will use advanced composite materials from TenCate for its solar powered car, which will participate in the 10th World Solar Challenge in Australia on 25-31 October ..."
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Treehugger has an article mentioning: "... Create Your Own Custom Solar Car and Win $1,000 USD from Kia ..."
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Discover Magazine has an article mentioning: "... if all goes well, and will be followed by two others, which may venture farther. Sagan was a founder of the Planetary Society and a big booster of solar sail plans ..."
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Spaceflight Now has an article mentioning: "... Next year promises to be a banner year for solar sailing, with at least two experimental missions due for launch to demonstrate the novel use of light pressure from the sun for propulsion in ..."
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Sail World has an article mentioning: "... http://www.sail-world.com/photos/Alt_Ikaros - solar sail from Japan.jpg ..."
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Daily Contributor has an article mentioning: "... Switzerland bids to be the first to produce a solar powered airplane that can travel around the world. Solar Impulse unveiled the prototype in an airbase hangar near Zurich ..."
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Inhabitat (blog) has an article mentioning: "... into space that will be propelled by solar sails. The mylar-winged vessel will carry not a drop of fuel (making it much lighter than contemporary space craft) and will be the first in a ..."
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Treehugger has an article mentioning: "... The first Solar Sail spacecraft met an untimely end, crashing into the ocean instead of making it into orbit. But now, in 2010, a new, improved version of that ..."
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Space.com has an article mentioning: "... An artist's concept of a sailing ship and a solar sail. Credit: NASA ..."
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Cooler Planet has an article mentioning: "... LightSail-1 is not the first Planetary Society solar sail project. In 2005, the group launched a prototype attached to a Russian rocket - but the rocket failed and crashed into the Barents Sea ..."
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Sky News Australia has an article mentioning: "... Four years after its first solar sail ended up in the ocean instead of orbit the Planetary Society has announced that by the end of 2010 it will try again to launch a spacecraft ..."
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RedOrbit has an article mentioning: "... The first time the society attempted to launch a solar sail five years ago, it fell short of its orbital target and landed in the ocean ..."
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Gizmag has an article mentioning: "... Japan's Tokai Challenger solar vehicle has taken victory in the Global Green Challenge ..."
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Winston-Salem Journal has an article mentioning: "... Group will try again to send a solar sail into space ..."
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USA Today has an article mentioning: "... Setting sail for space, a 'solar sail' project announced Monday aims to observe storms on the sun ..."
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The Associated Press has an article mentioning: "... LOS ANGELES — Four years after its first solar sail ended up in the ocean instead of orbit, The Planetary Society announced Monday that by the end of 2010 it will try again to launch a ..."
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Examiner.com has an article mentioning: "... make a logical addition. A solar sail is exactly what it sounds like: a sheet of material propelled through interplanetary space by the solar wind in much the same way ships ..."
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Houston Chronicle has an article mentioning: "... The solar sail receives its driving force from the simple fact that light carries not just energy but also momentum. The force on a solar sail is gentle ..."
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phillyBurbs.com has an article mentioning: "... Four years after its first solar sail ended up in the ocean instead of orbit, The Planetary Society announced Monday that by the end of 2010 it will try again to launch a ..."
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TG Daily has an article mentioning: "... An anonymous donor has donated a million dollars to the Planetary Society to help get a solar sail up and running ..."
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The Taiwan Economic News has an article mentioning: "... experience in solar-powered products, the company is well-known for turning out a variety of solar-powered ventilators, including remote array solar car vents, solar car battery rechargers, solar fridge fans, solar flashlights and warning lights, solar auto air coolers, solar-powered ..."
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FOXNews has an article mentioning: "... Some technologies, still in the concept stage, are even more mind-blowing, including spacecraft powered by "solar sails ..."
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The Planetary Society has an article mentioning: "... New Project Will Launch Three Separate Solar Sails Over Next Several Years ..."
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Wired.co.uk has an article mentioning: "... Solar-powered plane gears up for round-the-world flight ..."
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Michigan Times has an article mentioning: "... The Infinium is the University of Michigan solar team's newest solar powered car. The car competed against dozens of other solar powered cars in Australia's World Solar Challenge, a 1,800 mile race, in which it ..."
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Expatica Switzerland has an article mentioning: "... Solar Impulse, the first company to attempt a solar-powered flight around the world, introduced its prototype on Friday and started the engines at an airbase near Zurich ..."
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AsiaOne has an article mentioning: "... Nanyang Technological University's Nanyang Venture II has emerged 12th in the just concluded World Solar Challenge in Australia. In all, 31 solar cars from around the world competed in the 3,000km race from Darwin to Adelaide ..."
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The Ann Arbor Chronicle has an article mentioning: "... The New York Times gives an update on the World Solar Challenge, a race of solar-powered vehicles through 1,880 miles of Australia’s outback. The column quotes Steven Durbin, a senior in aerospace engineering and the ..."
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AFP has an article mentioning: "... GENEVA — Solar Impulse, the Swiss bid to make the first solar-powered flight around the world, rolled out its prototype on Friday at an airbase near Zurich and powered up the engines ..."
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Wired News has an article mentioning: "... to Piccard, pilot fatigue limitations will break the trip up into several three- to four-day, round-the-clock stages. Batteries will power the solar-powered aircraft at night ..."
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india-server.com has an article mentioning: "... The first solar-powered plane prototype was rolled out here in Zurich airbase in Switzerland ..."
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Waterloo Record has an article mentioning: "... At some point in their progress, though, the WCI students began to pose the question: Why is it a group of high school kids can make a solar car in their spare time, but the world's big auto companies can't ..."
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Government Technology has an article mentioning: "... Japanese University Wins Solar Car Race Across Australia ..."
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Bundaberg NewsMail has an article mentioning: "... THABEBAN State School students float on a wave of success after taking out the top four positions in the solar boat racing at Maryborough Technology Challenge ..."
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University of Central Florida has an article mentioning: "... UCF is sponsoring an online contest to name its colorful solar vehicle with rooftop solar panels. Submit the best name ..."
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Reuters has an article mentioning: "... Southland High Schools Participating"; var RTR_ArticleBlurb = "http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20091105006365/en Students Build, Race Solar-Powered Boats in Seven-Month Program Highlighting Natural and Renewable Resources LOS ANGELES ..."
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Washington Post has an article mentioning: "... The SolarShop Kelly solar car from Australia starts the World Solar Challenge on Oct. 25. There are 32 purely solar-powered cars from 17 countries participating in a race ..."
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Environmental Transport Association has an article mentioning: "... Solar-powered car travels 3,000km on less power than a kettle ..."
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch has an article mentioning: "... encodeURIComponent('Principia\'s solar car finishes 7th in race'), 'digg')); return false ..."
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Daily Northwestern has an article mentioning: "... That's because Dziedzic is the captain of NU's Solar Car Team. When he drives the vehicle – which runs off of electricity generated by solar cells – in cross-country races ..."
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Tech-On English has an article mentioning: "... Tokai University announced that it became the overall champion in the solar car category of the 'Global Green Challenge,' one of the world's largest green car races, which took place from Oct 25, 2009, in ..."
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University of Central Florida has an article mentioning: "... http://news.ucf.edu/resources/sites/UCF/content/live/NEWS/1000/NE1943/en_US/solar car profile FULL 345x226.jpg ..."
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Metromode Media has an article mentioning: "... bunch of University of Michigan kids just traveled 1,880 miles through Australia. Not backpacking, however, but powering a solar powered car in an international race. And, as if that wasn't enough, the UM team came up third ..."
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Green Muze has an article mentioning: "... solar car, with top speeds of 150kph (93.2mph), is equipped with ..."
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GreenPacks has an article mentioning: "... Permanent Link: Kyoto Box, Solar Cardboard Cooker Wins Climate Prize'>Kyoto Box, Solar Cardboard Cooker Wins Climate Prize ..."
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Inhabitat (blog) has an article mentioning: "... And these cars have certainly come a long way from solar vehicles that competed in early challenges: In the inaugural 1987 challenge, the winning vehicle took 44 hours and 54 minutes to travel ..."
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Gizmodo.com has an article mentioning: "... solar world solar challenge solar car cars tokai challenger science solar power ..."
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The Inquisitr has an article mentioning: "... Tokai Challenger - Worlds Fastest Solar Powered Car ..."
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UberGizmo (blog) has an article mentioning: "... upsetting the pecking order that was once dominated by 4-time Dutch champs. They took top spot by making it past the finish line of the 1,864-mile solar car race that was held across Australia, completing the gruelling journey in 29 hours and 49 minutes even on a flat tire, giving it an ..."
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The Planetary Society has an article mentioning: "... Solar Sail Team windbreaker in the new What's Up ..."
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AsiaOne has an article mentioning: "... SOLAR car built by a team of 23 engineering students, alumni and staff from Nanyang Technological University (NTU), called Nanyang Venture II ..."
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Bernama has an article mentioning: "... Merely completing the 3,021-km journey across the simmering Australian outback was a remarkable feat for the solar car of Universiti Tenaga Nasional (Uniten), considering that the Solar Ranger started off with an unexpected technical failure in its maiden ..."
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