With the shipping/forwarding company (we’re not sure which) still dragging their feet, the team in Darwin is still without a solar car to work on.

Time-filling measures began with a visit to Litchfield National Park. Our plan to set off at 8am was scuppered by half the team not being awake, but we were soon on our way. We decided to stop at the care hire company to drop off the police incident number for the car accident the previous day, in attempt to speed up the insurance claim process. While Alisdair and Oli went inside for a few minutes the rest of the team enjoyed the benefits of air conditioning inside the car, only to realise slightly too late that this drained the battery almost immediately and without warning. At least the car park of the car hire company is the most convenient place to break down.

Why don’t normal cars have warnings that the battery is getting low? If a bunch of students can build a solar car that does this (on a budget of £0) why can’t Mitsubishi build it into their Outlander 4×4 which we’re being charged a fortune for? At least we got a free…
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