Sun powered race across Australian desert

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Updated October 30, 2009 11:57:28

Student engineers from around the world have been putting a range of solar-powered vehicles through their paces this week, driving across Australia. Last Sunday, the participants in the biennial Global Green Challenge began their journey in the northern city of Darwin. And by midday Friday, they should have covered the 3,000 kilometres to the South Australian city of Adelaide.

Presenter: Beverley Wang
Speakers: Debbie Phua, student, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore; Mike Drewer, spokesman, Global Green Challenge; Professor Halil Hussain, Universiti Tenaga Nasional, Malaysia; Edmund Ti, student, Universiti Tenaga Nasional, Malaysia

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