Right Lane Cruiser
02-03-2009, 08:54 AM
Entech currently has 40 employees but expects to double that number. (http://www.theolympian.com/662/story/724840.html)
http://www.cleanmpg.com/photos/data/501/Power_of_One.jpgJohn Dodge – The Olympian (http://www.theolympian.com) – Jan. 13, 2009
Basjoos? Is that your next car?? --Ed.
Marcelo da Luz left his home in Toronto in June strapped into the driver's seat of a solar car he helped design and build with the goal of driving across Canada and breaking the world distance record for a vehicle powered by the sun.
He's accomplished both goals, although he had to drop down into the United States for part of the journey because his project clashed with a moratorium on solar car travel Ontario provincial authorities imposed after a fatal solar car crash in 2004.
Da Luz has logged more than 10,000 miles on the transcontinental trip, paying a visit to the Arctic Circle and topping the old distance record of 9,364 miles on Oct. 30.
Dubbed the Power of One solar car project, the journey has allowed da Luz, 40, to fulfill a dream he first had as a young man in 1986, living in Brazil.
After watching an Australian solar car race on television, he was inspired to build his own solar car and take it on a life-altering journey.
But he put the dream on the back burner, moved to Canada, and began a career as a flight attendant with Air Canada in 1990.
"Every so often, the idea would come back to me," da Luz recalls. "What pushed me over the edge was that... http://www.theolympian.com/662/story/724840.html
http://www.cleanmpg.com/photos/data/501/Power_of_One.jpgJohn Dodge – The Olympian (http://www.theolympian.com) – Jan. 13, 2009
Basjoos? Is that your next car?? --Ed.
Marcelo da Luz left his home in Toronto in June strapped into the driver's seat of a solar car he helped design and build with the goal of driving across Canada and breaking the world distance record for a vehicle powered by the sun.
He's accomplished both goals, although he had to drop down into the United States for part of the journey because his project clashed with a moratorium on solar car travel Ontario provincial authorities imposed after a fatal solar car crash in 2004.
Da Luz has logged more than 10,000 miles on the transcontinental trip, paying a visit to the Arctic Circle and topping the old distance record of 9,364 miles on Oct. 30.
Dubbed the Power of One solar car project, the journey has allowed da Luz, 40, to fulfill a dream he first had as a young man in 1986, living in Brazil.
After watching an Australian solar car race on television, he was inspired to build his own solar car and take it on a life-altering journey.
But he put the dream on the back burner, moved to Canada, and began a career as a flight attendant with Air Canada in 1990.
"Every so often, the idea would come back to me," da Luz recalls. "What pushed me over the edge was that... http://www.theolympian.com/662/story/724840.html