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Jennie Winhall takes a ride on Britain's SolarShuttle, and reports back on a wonder of technology and design.

Here's a taste:
"It's the perfect project," says Jason Iftakhar, designer for Solarlab, a London-based design consultancy for solar innovation. "It makes me proud every time we take her out." Iftakhar graduated from the RCA's Design Products course two years ago. "I spent a year modelling this on Solidworks and now I can't believe I'm actually standing in it. The ethics and the big idea behind it...it's a real privilege for an industrial designer to work on something like this. You have to do so much rubbish in your career before you get a chance like this to address the big question facing all of us—which is 'What is the future of energy?' It's just great to know that you're able to create an actual solution and put it in front of so many people." ...

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