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Zee News has an article mentioning: "... Jaipur, Nov 16: 'Solarimplse,' a solar plane, dubbed a revolutionary project in the field of aviation, will have its first test flight April next year in Switzerland, an officer ..."
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News.gov.hk has an article mentioning: "... Last November he led the departmental design team in producing a solar car for participation in the 2007 Hong Kong Renewable Energy Car Technology Showcase and Design Competition organised by Hong Kong Science & ..."
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Lanka Newspapers has an article mentioning: "... that is where govt subsidies are needed or at least govt fleets should be solar cars then the cost of production goes down ..."
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Morehead News has an article mentioning: "... The University of Kentucky (UK) student Solar Team arrived to Guardian Automotive Plant Tuesday with the solar car from the North American Solar Challenge ..."
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Gizmodo Australia has an article mentioning: "... It's a solar-powered vehicle, so its covered in solar panels. But when you stop for a breather, the panels fan out, increasing their surface area and helping ..."
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DVICE has an article mentioning: "... to cover even the shipping costs for the selling price. Now China's biggest shipping company COSCO is giving us a clue. They just signed a deal with Solar Sailor of Australia, to fit some of their cargo ships with gigantic rigid sails, each the size of a 747 jet's wing. We've looked before at ..."
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Green Muze has an article mentioning: "... Toronto native Marcelo da Luz had the distinction of setting the world record for the longest distance traveled in a solar car when he rolled into Victoria, British Columbia this week. However he doesn't intend to stop at surpassing the previous record by a mere ..."
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Green Muze has an article mentioning: "... They make a perfect solar vehicle runabout for speeds of 35 mph or less and a range of up to 55 miles. However vehicles require the addition of seat belts and turn ..."
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Radio World has an article mentioning: "... from the University of Minnesota's engineering department participated in the North American Solar Challenge, in which teams compete to build solar-powered cars; the annual ..."
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CNN International has an article mentioning: "... Solar sails are large solar-paneled wings which can harness sun or wind power ..."
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Penrith City Star has an article mentioning: "... THE third annual Australia's International Solar Boat Challenge will be held at the International Regatta Centre, Penrith Lakes on Saturday, November ..."
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abc13.com has an article mentioning: "... Expo at Stewart Elementary School in Kemah. The day featured a variety of hands on activities including cooking nachos in solar ovens and races with solar cars and solar crabs ..."
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Leamington Post has an article mentioning: "... more about the sources, technology and importance of conserving renewable energy, he said, and give the students the opportunity to take part in solar car experiments, use a spectrometer to measure light energy, learn how a photovoltaic cell works and the advantages of renewable and ..."
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Green Muze has an article mentioning: "... A Canadian man set a world distance record in his solar car this week. Marcelo da Luz and his ..."
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Leamington Post has an article mentioning: "... Grade 5 students from Mill Street Public School get ready to race while MP Pay Hoy (far right) tries to figure out why his solar powered car won't work. The students were participating in the first solar powered activities now at Hillman Marsh. Local politicians were on ..."
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Penrith City Star has an article mentioning: "... home ground advantage to full effect on Saturday, dictating the terms at the Sydney International Regatta Centre to reign supreme at the National Solar Boat Challenge ..."
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Windsor Star has an article mentioning: "... The educational program also includes a solar car experiment, which allows visitors to take apart, assemble and use solar-powered vehicles ..."
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Inhabitat has an article mentioning: "... View post The Xof1 Solar Vehicle Breaks World Distance Record ..."
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Electronics News has an article mentioning: "... Sunswift is a multidisciplinary student project in designing, building, and racing in the cutting edge world of solar cars. Particularly, electrical engineering and computing students who have learnt about microcontroller theory in their coursework are eager to ..."
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AZoBuild has an article mentioning: "... plan on climate change and renewable energy and taught the students about solar energy through a hands-on project of building and racing miniature solar-powered cars ..."
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Energy Matters has an article mentioning: "... for normal car tyres. This means to move a 1000 kilogram vehicle on a smooth flat surface would require a push force of 2.5 kg in the case of the solar powered car; compared to 11 to 13 kilograms for a 1000 kilogram car using a regular tire ..."
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Williams Lake Tribune has an article mentioning: "... POWER OF ONE Marcelo da Luz, who recently stopped by the Tourism Discovery Centre, was to beat the world distance record Friday after driving his solar car 16,070 kilometres from Toronto to the Arctic Circle and south to Victoria, B.C ..."
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Winchester Star has an article mentioning: "... lt;b>Photo by Staff photo by Eric Tsetsi</b><br />Michaela Eichel, 5, of Winchester, designs her own solar powered car during the Eco Festival on Saturday ..."
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Sault Star has an article mentioning: "... A Canadian man has set a new world distance record in a solar-powered vehicle that looks more like a flying saucer than an automobile ..."
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Times Colonist has an article mentioning: "... Marcelo da Luz is claiming a world record after pulling into Mile Zero yesterday in his solar-powered car ..."
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CBC.ca has an article mentioning: "... Toronto native Marcelo da Luz has set a new world distance record by zig-zagging across Canada in his solar-powered car ..."
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Christian Science Monitor has an article mentioning: "... sun’s light as a kind of “wind” to help make small course changes as it closes in out its quarry. Although the craft carries no solar sail, this pressure is significant enough in Mercury's vicinity to allow the craft itself to serve as a substitute sail ..."
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Canoe.ca has an article mentioning: "... VICTORIA — A Canadian man has set a new world distance record in a solar-powered vehicle that looks more like a flying saucer than an automobile ..."
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Globe and Mail has an article mentioning: "... A Canadian has set a new world distance record in a solar-powered vehicle that looks more like a flying saucer than a car ..."
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The Canadian Press has an article mentioning: "... VICTORIA, B.C. — A Canadian man has set a new world distance record in a solar-powered vehicle that looks more like a flying saucer than an automobile ..."
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C-FAX 1070 has an article mentioning: "... MARCELLO DA LUZ ARRIVED THURSDAY MORNING AT VICTORIA'S MILE ZERO IN HIS SINGLE-SEAT, "POWER OF ONE" SOLAR CAR ..."
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Transport and Logistics News has an article mentioning: "... Solar Sailor's technology consists of wing-shaped solar panels fitted to vessels ..."
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PSFK has an article mentioning: "... and now we see this trend moving to the development of solar-powered cars. This month, a low-cost, solar-driven mini car was introduced at the Zhejiang International Bicycles and Electric-powered Cars ..."
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TheGreenCarWebsite.co.uk has an article mentioning: "... The organisation, which works in a similar manner to green car clubs here in the UK such as CityCar and WhizzGo, will receive electricity from solar-powered recharging stations. The electricity is passed on to the hubs which are based by a local Co-Operative store and by a light rail station ..."
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TheGreenCarWebsite.co.uk has an article mentioning: "... Solar car sharing scheme launched'>Solar car sharing scheme launched ..."
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Sydney Morning Herald has an article mentioning: "... The Chatswood-based Solar Sailor group has designed the sails, which can be retro-fitted to existing tankers ..."
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findingDulcinea has an article mentioning: "... Mile Race, Sri Chinmoy race, Sri Chinmoy, cockroach races, beer race, giant Madagascar hissing cockroaches, Panasonic World Solar Challenge, solar car race, solar-powered cars, Shipyard Labs ..."
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Tufts Daily has an article mentioning: "... Nerd Girls, a group of female engineers at Tufts, made progress over the summer in designing and building a solar car that they will race across Australia next October in the 2009 World Solar Challenge ..."
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Azom.com has an article mentioning: "... The program includes five hands-on silicone-related experiments: “Mini Solar Car”, “Tissue Coating,” “Waterproofing Stone,” “Silicone Rubber” and “DIY Cream Mix,” In ..."
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Creamer Media's Engineering News has an article mentioning: "... This is the Real Economy Report. Our top stories this week: the Japanese win the South African solar car challenge, the upgraded ConRoast smelter ..."
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engadget has an article mentioning: "... Chinese-made solar-powered car gets 150 kilometers on a 30-hour charge ..."
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MarketWatch has an article mentioning: "... created by Tristan Watts-Willis, Ben Newton, Andrew Brown, and Maxwell Strog. Terran Solar Boat is based on the Solar Sailor project, showcasing the multiple ways solar power and renewable energy sources can be used in ..."
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TheGreenCarWebsite.co.uk has an article mentioning: "... with its range of electric cars and now China is ready to bring into practice one of the cleanest possible ways of powering transportation - with a solar powered electric car ..."
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RedOrbit has an article mentioning: "... of the nation's largest ''Bi-Directional Solar Trackers''. The solar installation designed, engineered and integrated by Premier Power uses over 50 solar planes on a single solar array ..."
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Seeking Alpha has an article mentioning: "... The U.S. Marine Corp at Camp Pendleton, during my last visit, showed me an 8-station solar car port that they use to charge their 320 light-electric vehicles. Petroleum fuel is a multi-billion dollar part of the U.S. Defense budget ..."
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IRINnews.org has an article mentioning: "... in an intense 15-minute downpour. The rain elicits more giggles from the children, who scamper for refuge under the trees lining the bank. Then a solar-powered boat with a sign "Nauka [Boat] School ..."
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ABC Regional Online has an article mentioning: "... Ted Shepherd has called for the installation of solar-powered car park lights at a Mudgeeraba Shopping Centre ..."
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Cleantech Blog has an article mentioning: "... The U.S. Marine Corp at Camp Pendleton, during my last visit, showed me an 8-station solar car port that they use to charge their 320 light-electric vehicles. Petroleum fuel is a multi-billion dollar part of the U.S. Defense ..."
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New Britain Herald has an article mentioning: "... to have some steam-engine cars, which will be parked next to GM's hydrogen-fuel-cell car, the Equinox," he said, "and New Britain High School's solar car ..."
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Arizona Daily Star has an article mentioning: "... As a graduate student, he was the team leader for the mechanical-engineering component of a solar-powered car the school entered in the 1997 Sunrayce, a solar-powered vehicle race from Indiana to Colorado. About 30 to 40 U of I students ..."
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Power Boat - World has an article mentioning: "... The biggest solar boat of the world will begin its world tour in 2010, with a new design. A village, in the form of an exhibition will accompany this first ..."
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SunJournal.com has an article mentioning: "... As a graduate student, he was the team leader for the mechanical engineering component of a solar-powered car the school entered in the 1997 Sunrayce, a solar-powered vehicle race from Indiana to Colorado. About 30 to 40 U of I students ..."
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Tom's Guide has an article mentioning: "... and Bad news for the Electric Car'; digg_bodytext = 'While a Chinese company reveals its sub-$6,000 solar-electric car, Tesla fires 90 percent of its Detroit operations ..."
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Gainesville Sun has an article mentioning: "... South Plantation High School from Fort Lauderdale displayed its solar car, the Solar Knight II, which won third place at the Texas Dell-Winston School Solar Car Challenge in July ..."
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Citizens Voice has an article mentioning: "... knowledge learned from each course to work toward an end goal. That’s why the last few years, he had his students work on projects — a solar-powered car, a lightweight airplane, and a wind turbine ..."
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engadget has an article mentioning: "... for that matter, but this solar-powered car built by China's Zhejiang 001 Group is pretty impressive in its own right, both for its price (just $5,560), and it's efficiency ..."
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CrunchGear has an article mentioning: "... a solar-powered car that costs some $5,500—more than reasonable for any car, let alone one that’s partially fueld by our own local star ..."
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Williams Lake Tribune has an article mentioning: "... Marcelo da Luz passed through the city this month with his solar-electric car that he drove from Buffalo, New York to the Artic Circle. The Lakers Car Club showed its support by donating $1,000 to help him ..."
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Gas2.0 has an article mentioning: "... Permanent Link: Chinese Company Unveils Solar-Powered Car for ..."
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Creamer Media's Engineering News has an article mentioning: "... Earlier this month South Africans from Johannesburg to Cape Town were treated to a sight they haven't seen before - six solar cars competing in Africa's first ever solar challenge. Irma Venter has the story ..."
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New Britain Herald has an article mentioning: "... NEW BRITAIN - A dozen New Britain High School built a 13-foot solar-powered car, and six took it to Texas in July to compete in the Dell Winston Solar Challenge ..."
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Earth2Tech has an article mentioning: "... a sun-powered vehicle that was making an around-the-world road trip to promote clean energy, has to pull a 6-square-meter solar panel trailer behind it ..."
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Cnet Asia has an article mentioning: "... rendition, will use an exotic fuel to travel through space: sunbeams. Photons from the sun are captured by a large pinwheel structure known as a solar sail ..."
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Visordown.com has an article mentioning: "... The owner, Kyle Dansie, of Utah-based company ZEVUtah, purchased a defunct old Kawasaki Ninja from eBay for £250 and transformed it into a solar-powered vehicle capable of hitting 55 mph with a 50 mile range ..."
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MIT News has an article mentioning: "... is being sold only in California, along with two different versions of custom cars built by the MIT Solar Electric Vehicle team. The team's original solar car has competed in past solar car races, and a newer version is in the process of being finished in preparation for a trans-Australia solar ..."
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SanFranciscoSentinel.com has an article mentioning: "... the ribbon and kick off their exploration of solar science and energy education. Several 49ers players will team up with the students as they race solar cars, play energy games, and create solar crafts ..."
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The MIT Tech has an article mentioning: "... Meanwhile, the Solar Electric Vehicle Team, first organized in 1985, designed a solar-powered vehicle of their own. Team president Michael P. Roberts '11, a mechanical engineering major, said that they expect their most recent ..."
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China Internet Information Center| has an article mentioning: "... One of China's first group of solar-powered cars went on display last Friday at the 29th Zhejiang International Bicycles and Electric-powered Cars Exhibition in Hangzhou, eastern ..."
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Sturgis Journal has an article mentioning: "... Sunseeker is Western Michigan University’s solar powered race car. Each vehicle is designed, assembled and maintained by students ..."
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RedOrbit has an article mentioning: "... that end up generating high-purity water [up to 16 liters a day] from moisture in the air. Another school, De La Salle University, built a solar car called SINAG that used SunPower solar cells ..."
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Chicago Tribune has an article mentioning: "... As a graduate student, he was the team leader for the mechanical engineering component of a solar-powered car the school entered in the 1997 Sunrayce, a solar-powered vehicle race from Indiana to Colorado. About 30 to 40 U. of I ..."
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EcoWorldly has an article mentioning: "... solar car race, which ended at the Innovation Hub in Pretoria this week. Solar car races are by no means new, but this is the first time one has been ..."
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EcoWorldly has an article mentioning: "... South Africa Sees Its First Solar Car Race : EcoWorldly ..."
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Wall Street Journal Blogs has an article mentioning: "... presenting complicated ideas and leading team projects that depend on gaining cooperation from others. Those include the Sunrayce project to build a solar car as well as his work on the space telescope. “Neel is just plain good, with a high standard of ethics,” said Dr. Surinder ..."
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High River Times has an article mentioning: "... Calgary whose solar powered car placed sixth overall with a time of ..."
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CarTradeIndia.com has an article mentioning: "... The Solar car built by a group of some 20 students from Netaji Subhash Institute of Technology is representing India in the South Africa Solar Challenge ..."
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RedOrbit has an article mentioning: "... automotive applications and modules for various thin film technologies. Asola is presently developing, for mass production for the plug-in-hybrid solar electric car, "Fisker Karma", the most spherically-bent solar car roof in the world ..."
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Independent Online has an article mentioning: "... The final leg of the race saw five solar-powered vehicles glide down the N4 from Ermelo, Mpumalanga, to the capital, bringing to an end the gruelling 4 200km challenge ..."
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Wheels Unplugged - Indis'a Automobile Magazine has an article mentioning: "... from solar energy and would also be representing India (with their model) at the upcoming 'South Africa Solar Challenge', a unique competition in solar-powered cars. The car developed by the Delhi-based institute, is also the cheapest model among all the participants, as revealed by sources ..."
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EcoWorldly has an article mentioning: "... In recent years, I hear more and more about developments on solar cars. I also hear frequently about solar car races ..."
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Independent Online has an article mentioning: "... with a giant school blackboard strapped to the roof, but "The Flying Brick" looks set to become the winning local entry in South Africa's first solar car race ..."
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ITWeb has an article mentioning: "... come and the competitors are embarking on South Africa's first Solar Challenge. The South African Solar Challenge 2008 is an epic, two-week race in solar-powered cars through the length and breadth of South Africa. Teams have built their own cars, designed their own engineering systems and are now ..."
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Infibeam has an article mentioning: "... NSIT students develop cheapest solar car ..."
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Space Daily has an article mentioning: "... Here is one example of these advances: the Keck Observatory is one of the world centers for the search for extrasolar planets. It was not many years ago that research in this field was a subject without subject matter ..."
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The Space Review has an article mentioning: "... Solar Sails: A Novel Approach to Interplanetary Travel ..."
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CarTradeIndia.com has an article mentioning: "... car that run on alternative fuel technology. They used electricity as their fuel source and the car needs to be charged with electric power. This solar car has an inverted tail dragon design and meets all the parameters of the competition. It runs at a stop speed of 50kmph and can run at a ..."
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Bowling Green News has an article mentioning: "... Laughing, the governor pressed the accelerator and drove down Administration Drive, flanked by the solar car team and a horde of photographers ..."
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Hindu has an article mentioning: "... New Delhi (PTI): A group of students from a city based institute, who have developed a solar car, are representing India at The South Africa Solar Challenge, a unique competition in solar-powered cars ..."
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The Planetary Society has an article mentioning: "... Here is one example of these advances: the Keck Observatory is one of the world centers for the search for extrasolar planets. It was not many years ago that research in this field was a subject without subject matter. Scientists speculated about the existence ..."
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Salt Lake Tribune has an article mentioning: "... nbsp; Whatever the reason, solar-electric cars seem to have a growing appeal ..."
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Williams Lake Tribune has an article mentioning: "... It was, in fact, Toronto-based Marcelo da Luz's solar-powered car. He stopped in he city as part of a trip to both foster awareness of alternative energy, and to test his machine, nine years in the ..."
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Express Buzz has an article mentioning: "... Citing a solar-powered car, designed by the students of a Canadian university, and a robotic car, designed by the students of a university in Germany, Kalam ..."
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New Scientist has an article mentioning: "... The manoeuvre makes Messenger the first interplanetary craft to use solar sailing to control its trajectory, says Daniel O'Shaughnessy, Messenger's guidance lead at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics ..."
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Independent Online has an article mentioning: "... It was supposed to be an exciting two-week race across the country in solar-powered cars in the first South African Solar Challenge, but an Indian team has been bogged down before the start ..."
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Baltimore Sun has an article mentioning: "... By adjusting the orientation of the spacecraft and its solar panels over several months, "solar sailors ..."
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iAfrica.com has an article mentioning: "... Africa's first-ever solar-powered car race is underway in South Africa to raise awareness about alternative energy and promote science and technology, organisers said on ..."
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Wheels24.co.za has an article mentioning: "... Africa's first-ever solar-powered car race is underway in South Africa to raise awareness about alternative energy and promote science and technology, organisers said ..."
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ABS CBN News has an article mentioning: "... The same is true with solar-powered cars. The technology is out there. An example is Sinag, the prototype, solar-powered car developed by students of the De la Salle ..."
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AFP has an article mentioning: "... CAPE TOWN (AFP) — Africa's first-ever solar-powered car race is underway in South Africa to raise awareness about alternative energy and promote science and technology, organisers said ..."
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