Revamp for solar car race

Adelaide Advertiser
Friday 20/3/2009 Page: 2

ONE of the world's major solar-car races will be an even bigger showcase of environmentally friendly vehicles. The Global Green Car Challenge is a revamped event of the World Solar Car Challenge, which in the past 21 years has featured solar energyed vehicles in a 3000km drive from Darwin to Adelaide to showcase alternative, emission-free transport.

The event was launched yesterday amid the first day of the Clipsal 500 by Premier Mike Rann and the SA Motorsport Board. To run in October, the challenge has been broadened to include more alternative, environmentally friendly fuel types, including hybrid, electric, solar, low-emission and alternative energy vehicles. "This is a major advance on the Solar Car Challenge, this event will be an evolution of that," Mr Rann said. "The Global Green Challenge will be open to a whole range of innovations in alternative and low-emission fuel sources."