MELBOURNE - SYDNEY - CANBERRA - MELBOURNE

WINNER SUNRACE 2002 – AURORA 101	PHOTO - FRANCK SOCH

The World’s Most Challenging Solarcar EV Circuit

MELBOURNE MUSEUM - ALBURY - GOULBURN - SYDNEY OLYMPIC PARK SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE - CANBERRA - WAGGA - WANGARATTA - MELBOURNE FEDERATION SQUARE

SunRace takes to the Australian Solar Super Highway!

SunRace ’04 - 17 to 26 February 2004 - set to take Solarcars out of the outback and into the main stream - Melbourne, Sydney, Canberra - nearly 2000 km over 10 media intense days via many of our major regional cities - an audience of more than half Australia’s population.

SunRace ‘04 - promoting a sustainable Australia through the ultimate icon of sustainable technology - the visually spectacular solarcar - a moon-shot of what a sustainable future might be.

We keep hearing about these exciting Solarcars, seeing them on our television screens and in glossy magazines and newspapers and always there is that question ‘ When will we be able to drive a solarcar and a day to day basis?

Solarcar racing is a bit like Formula One racing - without the hydrocarbons – you don’t really expect to drive an F1 car to work any more than you would a solar race car but you do expect a technology flow-on as a deliverable outcome.

So it is with solarcar racing. These sensational high-tech vehicles have demanded media and public attention for over a decade and are making some outstanding contributions to sustainable energy and transport technology as they develop.

SunRace 2004 expands this vision of sustainable technology with Ultra-Lite Electric Vehicles and the latest generation of Hybrid Electric Vehicles from the world’s major automotive manufactures – super efficient technology from Honda and Toyota that is in the market place right now - a demonstration of the flow-on of emerging sustainable technologies from Solarcars and Electric Vehicles.

This is ‘Brain Sport for the 21^st Century’ and the SunRace ‘New Team’ Seeding programs engage and encourage young Australians in the pursuit of technological excellence - these are the scientists and engineers of the future who will take these sustainable technologies to the market place - not as alternative technologies but as imperative technologies at a time of global energy concerns.

UNSW’s Professor Stuart Wenham, one of the recipients of the prestigious $350,000 Australia Prize for science was quoted as saying: “Solarcar racing has done more than anything else to showcase solar energy technology to the public”

Join us in February ’04 on the Australian Solar Super Highway !

For media information contact Alison Waters - The Waters Group - 03 9820 1723 - awaters@bigpond.net.au

www.sunrace.com.au

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