Sunraycer

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The Sunraycer is a solar-powered racing car built in 1987 through a joint collaboration between General Motors, AeroVironment, and Hughes Aircraft to compete in the inaugural 1987 World Solar Challenge, the first transcontinental race featuring solar-powered vehicles. Driven primarily by Australian racing driver John Harvey, the Sunraycer won the 1,950-mile (3,140 km) 1987 inaugural race from Darwin to Adelaide by more than two days over the second-place entrant. The car is now part of the collection of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History. According to AeroVironment engineer and Caltech alumnus Dr. Alec Brooks, Harvey was involved with the testing and development of the Sunraycer at the General Motors Proving Ground in Arizona, by request of General Motors Holden's Australian arm.

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