{"id":144262,"date":"2010-01-06T04:31:16","date_gmt":"2010-01-06T09:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ecofriend.org\/entry\/university-of-south-australia-s-trev-to-race-around-the-world-on-solar-energy\/"},"modified":"2010-01-06T04:31:16","modified_gmt":"2010-01-06T09:31:16","slug":"university-of-south-australia%e2%80%99s-trev-to-race-around-the-world-on-solar-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/144262","title":{"rendered":"University of South Australia\u2019s Trev to race around the world on solar energy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.instablogsimages.com\/images\/2010\/01\/06\/trev_1_7Lsnm_69.jpg\" alt=\"trev_1\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Eco Factor:<\/strong> Zero-emission electric vehicle powered by solar energy.<\/p>\n<p>A team from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unisa.edu.au\/\">University of South Australia<\/a> is preparing a solar-powered car to participate in the first zero-emission car race around the world. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zero-race.com\/\">race<\/a> will commence in June where the competing teams will make use of renewable energy to cross 20 countries on three continents in about 80 days.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.instablogsimages.com\/images\/2010\/01\/06\/trev_2_VVLxC_69.jpg\" alt=\"trev_2\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The vehicle, dubbed <a href=\"http:\/\/teamtrev.com\/\">Trev<\/a> (Two-seater Renewable Energy Vehicle), includes two comfortable seats and enough luggage space. The 300kg vehicle can reach a top speed of 120kph and can run for 150km on a set of fully charged batteries. Most importantly, it uses less than 1\/5 of the energy required by a conventional car, and can be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unisa.edu.au\/solarcar\/trev\/\">recharged<\/a> using electricity from clean, renewable sources such as sun and wind.<\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/stories\/2010\/01\/06\/2786667.htm\">ABC News <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eco Factor: Zero-emission electric vehicle powered by solar energy. A team from the University of South Australia is preparing a solar-powered car to participate in the first zero-emission car race around the world. The race will commence in June where the competing teams will make use of renewable energy to cross 20 countries on three [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":229,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/229"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}