After leaving Perth’s Scarborough Beach last Wednesday at 8:20am Jaycar Sunswift III arrived in the Sydney CBD at 1:20pm yesterday. Despite cloudy weather for the first two days of the record attempt the team was still able to push through and shatter the previous record by 3 days.

Read more of this awesome journey on the teams website here.

From here

A group of university students from Sydney have broken the world record for the fastest solar powered road trip from Perth to Sydney.

The team of 11 engineering students from the University of New South Wales made the trip in the Sunswift 3 in five days, beating the 1994 record by nearly three days.

The solar panelled car travelled an average of 700 kilometres a day at speeds of around 70 kilometres an hour.

Engineering student Andrew Pratley says he hopes more consideration will be given to similar vehicles in the future.

“Climate change is a huge topical issue and examples like this show we don’t need fossil fuels to drive on the roads,” he said.

“It doesn’t present a practical alternative in the next five to 10 years but it shows that a group of students can drive across Australia with no fuel, then there probably is better alternatives for us to consider as a nation on where we go with our future transport.”