Palo Alto Online
A group of Palo Alto High School students is headed to Texas to compete in the biennial Solar Car Challenge, a 925-mile race from Fort Worth, Texas to Palmdale, California starting on July 16. The Palo Alto Solar Vehicle team has spent the past four months designing and building The Beast, a three-wheel, 100% solar powered vehicle, from scratch. Their car features a solar panel roof and a series of batteries that will store power for later use. Team members expect the vehicle will last for about six hours of driving per day. The race is divided into tiers based on experience. The Palo Alto team, the only high school team in northern California to enter the race, is entering the beginner's Classic Division, in which the vehicle that travels the most miles in the shortest amount of time is the winner.
ABC7 News Bay Area
A group students from Palo Alto High School are preparing to take a car that they built with their own hands and race it from Texas to California as part of one of the country's premier high school STEM competitions. The car has max speed of 60 miles per hour and is able to travel 200 miles on one charge. And, did we mention the students made it from scratch?
CBS News Bay Area
Shawn Chitnis reports on Peninsula students preparing to compete in interstate solar car competition
NBC News
A team of 15 students from Palo Alto High School built a solar-powered vehicle and are getting ready to put it to the test. Emma Goss reports.
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