Solar Racer SolarWorld No.1 to Race in Australia
Bonn, 10/23/2009
3,000 Kilometers Across the Desert Without a Filling Station
The award-winning solar racer SolarWorld No.1 will start in the "Global Green Challenge" race in Australia at the coming weekend. Exclusively driven by the power of the sun the solar racer will cover 3,000 kilometers across the desert of the Australian continent – silently and with a top speed of 120 kilometers per hour. The budding engineers of the Bochum University of Applied Sciences who developed the solar racer will drive SolarWorld No. 1 in an exciting 7-day race from Darwin to the finish line in Adelaide.
"Our solar racer is a symbol for the diversity of solar energy applications", says the Chairman and CEO of SolarWorld AG, Frank H. Asbeck. "I am convinced that the future of sustainable mobility lies in electric vehicles that can fill up with CO2-free electricity from the sun at home."
SolarWorld No.1 fills up with solar energy directly from the sun and is therefore an example of the climate-friendly mobility of the future for which no fossil energies are required. Supported by SolarWorld AG the students of the faculties of mechatronics, mechanical engineering as well as electrical engineering and computer science at the Bochum University of Applied Sciences developed, designed and built the pioneering solar racer. For more information on the SolarWorld No.1 racer please visit www.solarworldno1.de.
About the "Global Green Challenge"
The "Global Green Challenge" is organized by the South Australian Motor Sports Association and is considered to be the unofficial world championship of solar motor sports. The race is a continuation of the successful solar car race "World Solar Challenge" and is already taking place for the tenth time this year. In this year’s race from 24 to 31 October electric and other alternatively powered vehicles will participate for the first time.
About SolarWorld (www.solarworld-usa.com)
SolarWorld (ISIN: DE0005108401) is a worldwide leader in offering brand-name, high quality, crystalline solar-power technology. Its strength is its fully integrated solar production. From silicon as the raw material through wafers, cells and modules all the way to turn-key solar systems of all sizes, the group combines all stages of the solar value chain. The central business activity is selling quality modules into the installation and distribution trades and crystalline wafers to the international solar cell industry. Group headquarters are located in Bonn, Germany. The group’s largest production facilities operate in Freiberg, Germany, and Hillsboro in the U.S. state of Oregon. Sustainability is the basis of the group strategy. Under the name Solar2World, the group supports care projects using off-grid solar-power solutions in developing countries, exemplifying sustainable economic development. Worldwide, SolarWorld employs more than 3,300 people. SolarWorld AG has been quoted on the stock exchange since 1999 and today is listed on, among others, the TecDAX and ÖkoDAX as well as in the sustainability index NAI.
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