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A team of fourth-year engineering students and their professor have successfully built the first solar-powered vehicle in the Arab region. Named Apollo's Chariot-in reference to the Greek god of the sun, the steel-and-fiberglass one-seater vehicle measures five and a half meters in length and two meters in width. It weighs about 700 kilograms, or almost half the weight of an average sedan.
Led by Mechanical Engineering Assistant Professor Daniel Asmar, the team of Elie Maalouf, Amin Kanafani, Ahmed Hammoud, and Rawad el-Jurdi, took almost nine months of dedicated work to build the 'Chariot.'
With its aerodynamic design, the futuristic-looking vehicle glides over the road quietly. During a demo on campus, Elie maneuvered it effortlessly-forward, backwards, along a curb, then up a small hill. Noise and air pollution do not figure in the dictionary of Apollo's Chariot. 'It looks like a rocket, but moves like a swan,' said Amin, adding incredulously: 'We actually built a car that runs on a new kind of energy. It's almost like magic!'
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