Solar car taking over the racing track

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☀️ Durham University’s solar car is taking over the racing track.  #DurhamUniversity Solar Car Head of Business Anith Sathananthan shares some interesting details.   #solarcar #car #science

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00:00Hiya, I'm from the Durham University solar car team and we're here at the Goodwood Festival

00:03of Speed to show off both of our solar cars. This is Dust 2023 and behind there you can

00:09see Autus T. So we design, build and then race solar cars at major international events

00:17across the world. So the main race that we attend and we build our cars towards is the

00:21Bridgestone World Solar Challenge held in Australia every two or so years and that event

00:27is a 3,000 kilometre race from Darwin to Adelaide where we drive across the outback

00:32on public roads for six days, camping wherever we stop and yeah, we drive from eight till

00:38five using only the solar power that we have in the sky. So yeah, we do have a battery

00:43on board to help manage our race strategy you could say, but yeah, 90% of the energy

00:49that we use during the race is all from solar power.

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