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World Solar Challenge 2007

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The 2007 World Solar Challenge was one of a biennial series of solar-powered car races, covering 2,999 km (1,863 mi) through the Australian Outback, from Darwin, Northern Territory, to Adelaide, South Australia.

In the Challenge class 19 teams started, of which 10 completed the course, and the winner was a Nuna car built by Nuon of the Netherlands. In the Adventure class 18 teams started and eight completed the course, the winner being Ashiya University of Japan.

Challenge class

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Rank Team Country Distance (km) Time (hr:mn) Speed (km/h)
1 Nuon Netherlands 2999 33:00 90.87
2 Umicore Belgium 2999 34:36 88.05
3 Aurora Australia 2999 35:17 85.00
4 Bochum Solar World 1 Germany 2999 41:09 72.87
5 Southern Taiwan University Taiwan 2999 44:08 67.95
6 University of Twente Netherlands 2999 44:46 66.83
7 University of Michigan United States 2999 44:55 66.76
8 University of Calgary Canada 2999 51:43 57.98
9 University of Waterloo Canada 2999 54:49 54.70
10 Helios France 2999 59:24 50.80
11 Solar Fox UK 2719
12 Sinag Philippines 2691
13 Sun Speed France 2002
14 University of Chile Chile 1862
15 Queen's University Canada 1345
16 Leeming Senior High School Australia (WA) 1050
17 Gwawr UK 740
18 Heliox Switzerland 735
19 University of Malaya Malaysia 250

Adventure class

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Rank Team Country Distance (km) Time (hr:mn) Speed (km/h)
1 Ashiya University Japan 2999 32:03 93.57
2 Apollo Taiwan 2999 35:43 83.96
3 Southern Aurora Australia 2999 40:44 73.63
4 Sunswift Australia 2999 44:11 67.88
5 University of Toronto Canada 2999 46:19 64.74
6 Christine Aurora Australia 2999 46:33 64.42
7 TAFE SA Australia 2999 50:52 58.95
8 Salesian Polytechnic University Japan 2999 58:19 51.42
9 Towards Tomorrow Australia 2896
10 University Tech Malaysia Malaysia 2719
11 HelioDet Germany 2517
12 Solar Fern New Zealand 2233
13 Stanford University United States 1864
14 University of Western Ontario Canada 1680
15 Hachinohe Institute of Technology Japan 1675
16 Polytechnique Montreal Canada 1772
17 Willetton Australia (WA) 729
18 Houston HS United States 143

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