Students steer solar-powered racing cars to glory in American Solar Challenge

Student teams representing Appalachian State University and KU Leuven took first place in this year's American Solar Challenge (ASC) which concluded on August 5 with a cross-country race to the finish line in Amarillo, Texas. The ASC happens every year and spotlights the engineering and project design and development skills of a range of different student teams from all over the world. The students taking part spend around two years building their solar-powered cars before eventually racing them along a 1,500-to-2,000-mile cross-country route. Belgium's KU Leuven team won in the Single-Occupant ...

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