Going Solar
by Shannon Story
Title
Going Solar
Artist
Shannon Story
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
On June 18, 2005 I was driving by Weatherford College and saw a bee-hive of activity in the parking lot. A van said University of Michigan Solar Car Team 2. Being a quasi-reporter at the local newspaper, I stopped to see what was going on, and take photos of the strange cockroach looking machine. I found out they were on their way to Austin Texas to compete in a solar car race.
"The 2005 race, renamed the North American Solar Challenge, was both the longest and most hotly contested race in the history of the event. The route covered 2,494.9 mi (4,015.2 km), taking the teams from Austin, Texas in the United States to Calgary, Alberta in Canada. The race was won by the Momentum from the University of Michigan with an average speed of 46.2 mph (74.4 km/h). The University of Minnesota's Borealis III followed in second place less than 12 minutes behind. The lead teams often drove 65 mph (105 km/h) (the maximum allowed), but were slowed by rain in Kansas and 20 mph (32 km/h) headwinds in Canada. Stanford University's Solstice won the Stock Class in 2005, followed in second place by the Beam Machine from The University of California, Berkeley." -- Wikipedia
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March 12th, 2015
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