I spoke with Andy Frank, well known in the battery-powered plug-in
electric vehicle space, about how his students did in the Challenge X:
Crossover to Sustainable Mobility. His students entered a
solar-charged, PHEV into the 3-year competition. The student's
objective it turns out, wasn't to win, but to prove that this
technology works, and is sustainable. Watch at
http://www.nextgearshow.com/1761/andy-frank-at-challenge-x