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Home » Posts tagged 'Marcelo da Luz'

Marcelo da Luz tests the limits of his solar car  

Posted by: leila    Tags:  Marcelo da Luz, power of one, Solar car, X of 1    Posted date:  August 5, 2011  |  4 Comments



By Marcelo Vital - photo by Lydia Perr His name means “from light” in Portuguese, so what could be more fitting than for this 43-year-old Brazilian from Sao Paulo to create a car powered by sunlight? The Power of One is the effort of an international team orchestrated by one man with a dream: Marcelo da Luz. While not an engineer or scientist by trade, Marcelo reached out to volunteers all over the world to build his dream, a solar-powered three-wheeler out of his own design called the Power of One, or “X of 1.” Seeing the car in action is surreal and exhilarating; a UFO-like structure...


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