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World Solar Challenge

Every two years, for the past 30 years, the World Solar Challenge has welcomed the greatest minds from around the world to Australia to challenge the norms and travel the outback in a vehicle powered only by the power of the sun.

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By Wolfgang Mueller



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Among the many competitors is a team from the German city of Aachen which hopes to complete the gruelling distance from Darwin to Adelaide with a car that’s powered by an electric engine the strength of a domestic hair-dryer.


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