Meet Stella – the solar-powered family car

A group of Dutch researchers has created a family car which is fully powered by solar. Called Stella, the boxy vehicle by Solar Team Eindhoven at the Eindhoven University of Technology resembles a squashed train carriage from the front while towards the rear the huge solar panel-covered roof slopes to a point like an aerodynamic […]

UK team hopes solar car wins world race

The car may look like a space pod that could fly but it’s actually hoping to do something debatably far more impressive: win a marathon desert race powered by solar energy. The group of Cambridge students who designed and built the teardrop-shaped green car hope it will win the World Solar Challenge in Australia. The […]