Panasonic Corporation will be participating at the upcoming Global Green Challenge in October to be held in Australia, sponsoring the Solar Electric Vehicle Team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology by supplying high capacity lithium-ion batteries. In return, the MIT SEVT team will be placing the Panasonic logo on the body of the vehicle.
The Global Green Challenge is an offshoot of the World Solar Challenge which started out in 1987 in Australia. With the call for alternative power and fuel alternatives for better transportation, it looks like the attention has been on these solar powered transport alternatives. Mostly conceptualized by students, it would not be surprising to find a new vehicle coming out from these project cars as one of the sure observers will be the car manufacturers themselves who are soliciting ideas from such events.
Solar cars use motors which run on electricity generated by solar panels. Excess electricity is stored in their batteries. The batteries supply electricity to the motor when the electricity from the solar panel is insufficient, due to overcast skies or at night.
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