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 ...

SLIDESHOW: Palo Alto Solar Vehicle team driver Raghav Ranga, left, and build lead Alice Jambon, right, work on the front wheels of the car in Palo Alto on July 5, 2023. Photo by Magali Gauthier.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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

Junior electrical engineering major Owen Winegar sits in front of Cynisca, the car that the MSU Solar Racing Team is currently building, on Feb. 18, 2025 in the William A. Demmer Engineering Center.

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. Espy said it's a ...

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.

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