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UMSolar in Popular Mechanics

Posted in: Continuum, Infinium, Updates|Tags: Popular Mechanics, Test Drive|By: Steve Hechtman|March 24, 2009

The April issue of Popular Mechanics featuring Continuum is now available online! Please visit the Popular Mechanics website to read about their experience driving Continuum, the winning vehicle from the 2008 North American Solar Challenge.


The car I’m sitting in is so futuristic and so technically advanced that it would cost nearly a million dollars to duplicate. Yet this Jet Propulsion Lab on wheels lacks the basic features of even the humblest sedan: a radio, roll-down windows, a heater. I had to slither between the rails of a roll cage to access a cockpit so cramped that it feels as though I’m sitting upright in a Niagara Falls barrel.



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