The Power of One In 1987 Brazilian-born Canadian, Marcelo da Luz
saw a news clip about the World Solar Challenge race and it
inspired him to design a super cool solar vehicle of his own -
XOF1, which he calls The Power of One. When the model was
completely, he set out on a record-breaking trip. This visionary
trip began in Buffalo, N.Y., in June 2008, and went through
Canada, Alaska and down the West Coast to Los Angeles, where
pilot Marcelo da Luz and his solar-powered car made a pit stop
Friday. "Hopefully this won't be the end of the journey for me,"
said da Luz, 40, whose UFO-like car broke the world's 9,000-mile
distance record for travel by a solar vehicle. His journey came
to a halt this past Friday, however, because the funding for his
project ran out. The solar team traveled more than 11,500 miles
to break the previous record. The 470-pound, 14-foot vehicle
took 10 years and more than 50,000 man hours to build and
$50,000 to build, da Luz said. To read lots more on da Luz’s
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