Ready, Set, Go with Solar

From Plug In America's May Newsletter:

At Southern California's recent Long Beach Solar Grand Prix, junior high and high school students took full advantage of the sun and raced miniature solar-power cars that they had ingeniously designed and built. Plug In America displayed some real solar-powered cars: two Teslas, one Ford Ranger, a Chevy Volt and a Honda conversion. Each of these EVs "run on the sun" with electricity generated by their owners' residential rooftop solar arrays. Our good friend Bob Siebert's Honda conversion drew real-time photovotaic power from a portable solar array as the students' raced to the finish line.

2011 Solar Grand Prix

Here is a report from LBPost about the event. I'll post pictures when I can. I was busy working behind the scenes this year so I didn't get many myself.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75b-2p1F0sk&NR=1

Solar Tour coming in October 2010

Here's an article about the upcoming Solar tour.

2010 Solar Grand Prix on the web

Check out these links to reports about the 2010 Solar Grand Prix

http://www.getsolar.com/blog/long-beach-solar-grand-prix-showcases-creativity-solar-cars-from-soda-bottles/5653/

http://www.everythinglongbeach.com/long-beach-solar-grand-prix-saturday/



This one has video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtkToJDK26I&feature=related

Here's another one from LBTV8:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EgyhLImaLE&feature=player_embedded

2010 Solar Grand Prix

This year's event was more of an educational one that allowed Long Beach students to design and race SOLAR cars.

Check out some of the pictures from the event.
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2023485&id=1521183781&l=5b9cad05e2

Don't forget that we will be involved in the National Solar tour this October.

2009 Sustainability conference and Solar Tour

Learn more about the Conference at http://lbsolarconference.wordpress.com/

Here are some pictures of the Electric vehicles that we had on display at this year's conference.

This is the famous Tesla Roadster... checkout more about this car at http://www.teslamotors.com/

Peter Wright's CNG Honda Civic