Newscasts - Solar-powered cars prepare to race across Australian outback

BRIDGESTONE

23/08/2025 14:11

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Description: New fin technology was on display at the Bridgestone World Solar Challenge (BWSC) time trials on Saturday (August 23), as teams put on the finishing touches to their cars before they race across the Australian outback.

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Video Transcript:

>> I bet you in 10 years time, we'll all be taking it for granted that the cars coming out have weird little foils and things that you're wondering how they came up with that. Well, here you go. This is how they came up with it. It was tested by these teams, on this trip, on this track, at this time. It's important to improve the cars we've got, because for about 100 years we really haven't upgraded them. They've been blowing up petrol and turning pistons and this crazy old school infernal combustion engine, which we also have learned more lately in the late 20th century is causing global warming. We've got to get off and just do better.