The Greatest Thing Since Sliced Bread?

Posted on February 3, 2009 – 7:03 PM | by OldManFoster
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Probably.

What else could beat that claim other than a solar powered car? Today at 4pm the XOF1, the Toronto-based homebuilt solar powered car visits the Towe Auto Museum as it makes its way around the world.

Pretty much everything about the car is great. It looks like a flying saucer (check this video of passers-by encountering it on the side of the road), it’s lower than a TR3, and uses zero fossil fuels. There are plenty of youtube videos posted by the car’s developers and they are charmingly peculiar — heavy on the butchered english text, panned static photos and heavy metal music.  The official website for the project is so 1999 that it’s hard to believe that it’s in any way affiliated with such a tech-savvy project.  All of this only confirms the serious uber-nerd street cred of the builders.   In a word, awesome.

XOF1 Press Conference
4PM, Weds February 4
Towe Auto Museum
2200 Front Street

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