On a late July afternoon in 2003 an electric car powered by the sun and built by Stanford students rolled across the baking Mojave Desert, headed for Los Angeles. Stanford’s entry that year in the biennial American Solar Challenge race, the car—resembling a ground-hovering spaceship—traveled up to 60 miles per hour on roughly the same energy needed to run a hair dryer.
BY ANN MARSH
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