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Japan's Tokai Challenger Wins The 2009 World Solar Challenge

 
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The Tokai Challenger Wins World Solar Challenge 2009

The Tokai Challenger Wins World Solar Challenge 2009

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Carrying the regulation-maximum 6 square meters of solar cells and reaching speeds of up to 94 mph, the Solar-powered Tokai Challenger built by a team from Tokai University, Japan,  has fought it's way across 3000 kilometers of Australian desert ahead of the pack to take first place in the premier "challenge class" of the 2009 World Solar Challenge!

In an unexpected reversal of fortune the U.S.-based University of Michigan Solar Car Team slipped from a close second place into third, edged out in the final leg of the race by former four-time world champions the Nuon Solar team from Delft Technical University in the Netherlands.

38 full-solar vehicles from 17 countries were entered in this year's World Solar Challenge,  a biennial event in which teams create the most efficient solar-powered vehicles in the world and race them from coast to coast across the Australian outback.  The race has been held since 1987 and has now expanded to produce the broader Global Green Challenge which runs concurrently and includes various classes  of hybrid, electric, solar, low emission, and alternative energy vehicles.

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  1. By  Roger Posted: 10/30/2009 8:01pm PDT

    Those solar cars are getting faster every year. 94mph is damn fast. I wonder what it's acceleration and mass are?
     
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  2. By Innovator Posted: 10/31/2009 12:15pm PDT

    I agree, 94mph is very impressive. They must have ailerons to keep that light weight wing section on the ground. Might be time to change the rules and allow only 4 sq.m of solar panels.
     
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