Right Lane Cruiser
06-05-2009, 07:35 AM
http://www.cleanmpg.com/photos/data/2/Canadian_Flag.jpg The car will hit 75 mph and does zero to 50 in six seconds. (http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/howard/bal-md.ho.solar04jun04,0,1220158.story)
http://tinyurl.com/rxvbcbLarry Carson - BALTIMORESUN (http://www.baltimoresun.com) - June 4, 2009
This is one heck of a cool undertaking! --Ed.
Marcelo da Luz's low-slung experimental solar car seemed far more stylish than even General Motors' iconic '59 Chevy gull-wing design as he accelerated around the parking lot of Forest Ridge Elementary in Howard County yesterday before several hundred admiring children.
"It's like a race car. It's cool. It looks cool," exclaimed Dustin Windom, 11, a fifth-grader at the North Laurel school.
"If you take off the wheels, it would look like a submarine," said Jesse Rocco, also 11.
In fact, the native Brazilian told the kids and teachers that someone who had spotted him driving it in Alaska called 911 to report a UFO.
The students emitted a chorus of "ohs" when da Luz got into the cockpit, lying nearly flat on his back, clicked his seat belts into place, donned communications gear and had one of his three crew members lower the car's fragile-looking skin over him.
He took off briskly, driving three times around the parking lot before taking off for his next gig, on Capitol Hill.
The 41-year-old Toronto resident has been pursuing his dream of promoting solar power and saving the planet for more than a decade. Despite having no science or engineering background, he got the three-wheeled car built and has driven it across the continent from Buffalo, N.Y., to Alaska to Florida and up the East Coast - more than... http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/howard/bal-md.ho.solar04jun04,0,1220158.story
http://tinyurl.com/rxvbcbLarry Carson - BALTIMORESUN (http://www.baltimoresun.com) - June 4, 2009
This is one heck of a cool undertaking! --Ed.
Marcelo da Luz's low-slung experimental solar car seemed far more stylish than even General Motors' iconic '59 Chevy gull-wing design as he accelerated around the parking lot of Forest Ridge Elementary in Howard County yesterday before several hundred admiring children.
"It's like a race car. It's cool. It looks cool," exclaimed Dustin Windom, 11, a fifth-grader at the North Laurel school.
"If you take off the wheels, it would look like a submarine," said Jesse Rocco, also 11.
In fact, the native Brazilian told the kids and teachers that someone who had spotted him driving it in Alaska called 911 to report a UFO.
The students emitted a chorus of "ohs" when da Luz got into the cockpit, lying nearly flat on his back, clicked his seat belts into place, donned communications gear and had one of his three crew members lower the car's fragile-looking skin over him.
He took off briskly, driving three times around the parking lot before taking off for his next gig, on Capitol Hill.
The 41-year-old Toronto resident has been pursuing his dream of promoting solar power and saving the planet for more than a decade. Despite having no science or engineering background, he got the three-wheeled car built and has driven it across the continent from Buffalo, N.Y., to Alaska to Florida and up the East Coast - more than... http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/howard/bal-md.ho.solar04jun04,0,1220158.story