FORT WORTH, Texas — The sunny days ahead in Fort Worth signal the beginning of the 31st Annual Solar Car Challenge, where 32 teams of high schoolers across the nation will race their solar-powered ...

ATLANTA — Students at Georgia Tech are lighting up a new lane on campus. One hundred students designed a first-of-its-kind four-door solar car. It's turning heads and powering the future of ...

Solar cars exist. The best place to see them is the World Solar Challenge, a race that’s held every two years in Australia. Competitors have to drive about 1,870 miles (3,000 kilometers), from Darwin ...

It has been a long, twisting journey for Aptera’s solar-powered EV (sEV), but we can at last report that the extraordinary ...

Attempting to prove that solar-powered mobility is not just a concept for the future, a three-wheeled electric car has completed its first-ever long-distance road trip partially powered by the sun. US ...

This solar-powered car's narrow streamlined shape and lightweight carbon fiber exterior helped it take home the top prize at the 2023 Bridgestone World Solar Challenge: Every two years, engineering ...

Aptera Motors set out to design the world’s most efficient form of transportation. “We found out if you add solar panels, you can get really useful daily charge range just from the nuclear generator ...

Solar cars have been part of the automotive conversation for decades at this point, but consumer versions have yet to truly take off. With market entrants from Aptera and Lightyear still en route, the ...

Major carmakers are striving to make future mobility safer, more comfortable, more affordable, and, more importantly, cleaner for all of us. But college students seem to be competing with the big car ...

The University of Michigan student-run solar car team took home the gold covering 2095.5 miles (3372 km) at 37.51 mph (60.3 kmph) over 8 days in the latest Electrek American Solar Challenge 2024. The ...

Squad Mobility's newest solar-powered car is set to debut in 2025. Don't let it fool you because of its size until you hear what it can do in and out of the roads. What's more, the Solar City micro EV ...

Teagan McGuire of Watertown High School performs a test drive of their solar car during this year's Solar Car Challenge on Friday, July 14, 2023, at Texas Motor Speedway in Fort Worth. A panel of ...