One of last year’s Solar Challenge competitors leaves the Independence Square headed out for New Mexico along the route of the Santa Fe Trail. This year’s racers are going along the Oregon Trrail. The cars on display on the Square Friday afternoon and evening, and they leave Saturday. [MIKE GENET/THE EXAMINER]
By Mike Genet mike.genet@examiner.net The American Solar Challenge, a multi-day trek of hundreds of miles in cars built by college students, starts in Independence for…