Bridgestone World Solar Challenge Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Tue, 28 Oct 2014 22:32:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Most-Efficient Electric Vehicles – Bridgestone World Solar Challenge https://www.greenoptimistic.com/efficient-electric-vehicles-bridgestone-world-solar-challenge-20131002/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/efficient-electric-vehicles-bridgestone-world-solar-challenge-20131002/#respond Wed, 02 Oct 2013 17:35:57 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=42174 This weekend, the world’s most-efficient electric vehicles will compete in a 3,000km race across the Australian Outback in the Bridgestone World Solar Challenge. It might be easy to say that you can run practically any electric vehicle 3,000km from north to south, between Darwin and Adelaide. After all, even Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk is […]

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