In 1885, Karl Benz drove the first automobile. Though it only had three wheels and heavily resembled a tricycle, it was the birth of one of the most popular forms of transportation in the world. Since ...

Innoptus Solar Team, a bunch of students from Belgium, came up victorious in the world championship for solar cars after driving a little over 3,000 kilometers (1,864 miles) through the challenging ...

The 11th-generation solar race car, Infinite Apollo, equipped with LONGi's high-efficiency back-contact (BC) cells, drove on ...

OKEMOS, Mich. — There's nothing like a good sunny day, especially when you're racing a car completely made out of solar panels and needs to be operated by the sun. That's what the Solar Racing Club at ...

The World Solar Challenge has kicked off for another year, with Holland's Nuon Solar Team taking an early lead. The challenge has competing teams from all over the world race solar-powered vehicles ...

The group is creating its own solar-powered race car from scratch, a task that takes three years. But they will be ready to compete soon. Three years. That is how long the Michigan State Solar Racing ...

The Bridgestone World Solar Challenge started this week in Darwin, Australia on a 1,900-mile race to Adelaide in a collection of 44 solar-powered vehicles. The biennial race crowns the fastest ...

Delft University is the Brawn GP of solar-car racing, an outfit so singularly successful that it has won the World Solar Challenge four times in a row. The Dutch team is back with its newest car, Nuna ...