Later this month, 30 experimental race cars powered only by the sun and built entirely by college kids will take off on the World Solar Challenge, an epic 1,800-mile race across Australia that draws ...

say they are close to 90 percent finished with construction in the high desert east of Christmas Valley. The 5.7 megawatt array of about 20,000 solar panels will cover 40 acres near the southern ...

A solar car made by students from Japan's Tokai University was on Wednesday named the winner of a 1,900-mile race across the Australian outback that aimed to show that green cars can also be mean. The ...

CANBERRA (Reuters Life!) - With a fleet of vehicles resembling huge insects, spaceships and solar panels, motoring enthusiasts and manufacturers from around the world have gathered in northern ...

Students from Switzerland's ETH Zurich are racing a PV-powered car through the Australian outback. The vehicle can travel 80 km/h in sunny conditions without using any battery power. The car is ...

On the road into the tiny western Queensland town of Windorah, five striking solar dishes loom overhead like giant metal sunflowers. The $4.5 million solar farm was hailed as the future of outback ...

Vehicles in the 2013 World Solar Challenge rolled out of Darwin, Australia Sunday, in a bid to become the first to reach Adelaide just over 3,000 kilometers (1,864 miles) away. The race is expected to ...