The Sunraycer was a solar-powered race car designed to compete in the World Solar Challenge, the world's first race featuring solar-powered cars. The Sunraycer was a joint collaboration between General Motors, AeroVironment, and Hughes Aircraft.
The Sunraycer won the first World Solar Challenge in 1987. The team's lead driver was John Harvey, an Australian driver with (at the time) nearly 40 years of racing experience. Harvey was involved with the testing and development of the Sunraycer at the General Motors Proving Ground in Arizona.
The Sunraycer was a solar-powered race car designed to compete in the World Solar Challenge, the world's first race featuring solar-powered cars. The...
built the Sunraycer, which won the inaugural World Solar Challenge and was a showcase of advanced technology. Much of the technology from Sunraycer found...
achieved since the General Motors led, highly experimental, single-seat Sunraycer prototype first won the WSC with an average speed of 66.9 km/h (41.6 mph)...
Motors ended up winning the event by a significant margin with their Sunraycer vehicle that achieved speeds of over 40 mph.[citation needed] Contrary...
Nowra, breaking the record previously held by the General Motors car Sunraycer of 78.3 kilometres per hour (48.7 mph). The record takes place over a...
greater than 120 mph (190 km/h), and 5 to 7 day maximum flight duration. Sunraycer – This solar-powered car won the first world's first solar car race in...
electric vehicle (EV) in April 1988, inspired in part by the General Motors Sunraycer, which won the World Solar Challenge in 1987, and with an intent to meet...
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Australia. The race was won by a team from General Motors with the car 'Sunraycer' ahead of entries from Ford Australia and Biel College of Engineering...
was a trans-Australia race for solar vehicles, in which the company's Sunraycer was victorious. Alan Cocconi of AC Propulsion designed and built the original...
MacCready also collaborated with General Motors on the design of the Sunraycer, a solar-powered car, and then on the EV-1 electric car. In 1985, he was...
during the race 25.64 km/h. The race was won by the US-built GM entry, Sunraycer. The Solar Resource was an Australian privately funded backyard project...
Nowra, breaking the record previously held by the General Motors car Sunraycer of 78.3 kilometres per hour (48.7 mph). The record takes place over a...
Astro Model 300 ten-horsepower DC motor is the same one used in the GM Sunraycer experimental solar powered automobile. "NASA Armstrong Fact Sheet: Solar-Power...
the race the car achieved a top speed of 140 km/h. For comparison, the Sunraycer (the first winner of the Solar Challenge race) attained a top speed of...
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