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globalgreenchallenge.com.au - 10/20/2009
Global Green Challenge / Home
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Driving a Sustainable Future Darwin - Adelaide, 24 - 31 October 2009 The Global Green Challenge - an evolution of the acclaimed World Solar Challenge - is the world's leading, cross-continental showcase of the latest advances in hybrid, electric, solar, low emission, and alternative energy ...
Our biggest environmental challenge
telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com - 10/19/2009
Our biggest environmental challenge
— telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com — For many people, the most critical environmental challenge facing our beautiful, blue planet is climate change. For... others, it's peak oil, that scenario where we run out of the fossil fuels that make life as we know it possible. For still others, it's ... (more) Our biggest environmental challenge

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Global Civil Society starts to take up the climate challenge
watthead.org - 10/15/2009
Global Civil Society starts to take up the climate challenge
— watthead.org — Environmentalists have been looking forward to the Copenhagen climate talks this December with a mixture of dread... and expectation, as it may be the last opportunity to craft a global climate treaty as we barrel towards dangerous tipping points pointed out by leading scientists. Yet, as ... (more) Global Civil Society starts to take up the climate challenge

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Could NASCAR Ever Go Solar?
Planet Green Articles Feed — ... and have made great strides. They most famously culminate in the World Solar Challenge, a race to cross the Australian continent that has evolved into the even larger-concept Global Green Challenge . Similarly, the ...

Solar Race Cars Compete in Australia
Green Inc. — ... blog: The World Solar Challenge covers some 1,880 miles of mostly outback Australia, from Darwin in the north to Adelaide in the south. The route along the paved Stuart Highway takes in tropical rain forests, savannas and desert, but hot sun is a frequent traveling companion. And that’s a good thing when your cars are powered by sunlight. The typical competition car looks like an earthbound space ship, low and flat, with all horizontal surfaces covered with solar panels and a small bubble canopy for the driver. The average speed (in traffic) is 64 miles per hour, ...

Tesla Roadster Breaks EV World Record: 313 Miles on Single Charge (501 KM)
TreeHugger — The 10th Annual Global Green Challenge The Global Green Challenge (a kind of spin off from the World Solar Challenge) in Australia is the place to be for alt-fuel vehicles of all kinds. It's a good snapshot of what is currently possible, and of where things are going in green(er) transportation. The latest record comes from a red 2008 Tesla Roadster: Simon Hackett and co-driver Emilis Prelgauskas drove 313 miles (501 km) on a single charge, something that no production EV has done before....Read the full story on TreeHugger ...

Global Green Challenge: Car Racing Gone Green in Australia
Green Daily — ... If you're into cars that run on alternative fuels, then this is your lucky week. The Global Green Challenge is a 3,000 kilometer race through the center of Australia that starts in Darwin in the north, finishes in Adelaide in the south, and takes the participants through desert, rainforest and coastal plains. ...

Hypermiling in a Tesla
EcoModder.com — ... It looks like this could be a new record: A Tesla Roadster has squeezed its battery for 313 miles. The red Roadster competing in Global Green Challenge traveled through the Australian outback from ...

Hypermiling in a Tesla
EcoModder.com — ... It looks like this could be a new record: A Tesla Roadster has squeezed its battery for 313 miles. The red Roadster competing in Global Green Challenge traveled through the Australian outback from ...

Tesla Sets New World Record for Distance Driven on Single Charge
Green Options — ... While competing in the Global Green Challenge, Australian Simon Hackett and co-driver Emilis Prelgauskas drove an incredible 313 miles before the batteries finally died in their Roadster. ...

Sun-Powered Japanese Racecar Wins World Solar Challenge
INHABITAT — ... appeal. I mean, come on, it’s just a bunch of cars going round and round a track like a zillion times! But the World Solar Challenge ? Now that is one car race we can really get behind. ...

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