News High school students build solar cars and race for ‘adventure’ The Solar Car Challenge allows students to explore sustainable energy in a cross-country race.

A group of Palo Alto High School students is headed to Texas to compete in the biennial Solar Car Challenge in a vehicle they built in four months -- from scratch.

A group of Mountain View High School students are hard at work building their very own solar-powered car. It's all by hand and from scratch - some of the students are even learning to use power tools ...

President Donald Trump's massive federal spending and tax bill stands to have far-reaching impacts on Arizona's energy and ...

Max Darrow reports on a group of Mountain View High School students who are building a solar-powered car in order to compete ...

While the world is experiencing a transition to electric-powered cars, the Northwestern University Solar Car Team, known as NUsolar, is making a vehicle that can gather electricity as well. The ...

The Georgia Tech team recently put a different solar car to the test, driving 1,000 miles from Missouri to Nevada in a national competition. It cost $250,000 to build the vehicle.

Solar cars sound obvious, but the reality of making a production car with a meaningful amount of range added via solar is tough. Still, if you build a purpose-built solar car, you can get nearly ...

Coast-to-coast in a solar-powered car — and a new Cannonball Run record It took four Michigan friends over 13 days to drive cross-country, from New York to LA, in a solar car they built themselves.

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.

It's a one-of-a-kind car designed and developed by the group of Mountain View High School students, with parts literally ...