University of Delft Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Fri, 23 Oct 2015 04:00:48 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Dutch Teams Dominate the World Solar Challenge 2015 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/dutch-teams-dominate-world-solar-challenge-2015-20151022/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/dutch-teams-dominate-world-solar-challenge-2015-20151022/#respond Fri, 23 Oct 2015 04:00:48 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=57049 Dutch students from University of Delft win the World Solar Challenge, yet again, in a tough race for the lead against another Dutch team from University of Twente. It is that time of the year again when all eyes were on the World Solar Challenge, which took place in Australia. This year’s five-day long race […]

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