World Solar Challenge 2003
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Solar-powered car races
The 2003 World Solar Challenge was one of a biennial series of solar-powered car races, covering about 3,000 km (1,900 mi) through the Australian Outback, from Darwin, Northern Territory to Adelaide, South Australia.
Ten teams completed the course. The winner was a Nuna car built by Nuon of the Netherlands.
| Rank | Team | Country | Time (hr:mn) | Speed (km/h) |
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| 1 | Nuna | Netherlands | 30:54 | 97.02 |
| 2 | Aurora | Australia | 32:37 | 91.90 |
| 3 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | United States | 32:52 | 91.20 |
| 4 | Queen's University | Canada | 38:16 | 78.33 |
| 5 | Bochum | Germany | 40:56 | 73.24 |
| 6 | Principia College | United States | 41:20 | 72.53 |
| 7 | Southern Taiwan University | Taiwan | 44:00 | 68.13 |
| 8 | SA Consortium | Australia | 45:15 | 66.25 |
| 9 | Aoyama Gakuin University | Japan | 49:26 | 60.65 |
| 10 | Aurora/RMIT | Australia | 52:36 | 56.99 |
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