Solar race cars this week began their nine-day, 2,400 mile chase from Dallas to Calgary, Alberta using only the sun for fuel. The cars do race, within limits of course. In the event’s 20 year history, ...

The Solar Car Challenge will race into San Angelo this summer. It's the top project-based STEM initiative helping spark high-school students' interest in science, engineering and alternative energy, ...

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 ...

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 Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has organized a 2,300-mile solar car race that starts at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago and follows historic Route ...

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 ...

First, the COVID-19 pandemic cut their middle school and freshmen years short. Then the pandemic complicated and delayed the plans these engineering-inclined high school students had for building ...