Regular readers of BEST will know that every couple of years, some of the world's brightest young minds travel to Darwin to take on the Australian Outback in solar-powered cars. This event that is designed to test and promote the ultimate synergy of nature, motion and innovation. The competitors are required to build a car which, with a small initial charge of mains electricity, must be capable of crossing the vast continent from Darwin to Adelaide, via the Stuart Highway, purely on the energy of the sun.
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