Netherlands Team wins Solar Car Race across Australia

EERE Network News

For the fourth time, the World Solar Cup has been won by a team from the Netherlands. The Panasonic World Solar Challenge, which ended over the weekend, pits teams from around the world against each other in a race from Darwin on Australia’s north coast to Adelaide in the south—a distance of some 1870 miles.

The 38 vehicles in the trans-continental race are no ordinary racecars; they are either completely powered by the sun or are specially engineered for extremely low emissions. The winning Nuna4 car completed the course in 33 hours of driving, at an average speed of about 56 mph.

Belgian and German teams took second and third place in the race, while a car from the University of Michigan finished seventh in the Challenge Class.

You can read all about the World Solar cup event here.