| 1976 : Ing. Luciano Giol starts studying solar energy, monitors solar passive houses and greenhouses 1978 : monitors active solar houses 1980 : founds a solar energy association, raises funds and promotes solar houses 1981 : purchases a solar water heater for own family home 1985 : raises funds, designs and builds a 20 apartments’ solar building in Blanquefort near Bordeaux, with solar space heating and solar domestic hot water production; best measured solar yield in the field (France) (pdf) 1986: tests and patents an innovative solar water heater 1991 : in Los Angeles, starts studying sunracers and Evs 1992 : starts designing a sunracer 1993 : from Australia, reports the 3rd World Solar Challenge; from the U.S.A., reports the US academic Sunrayce 1994 : raises funds to enter the World Solar Challenge 1995 : builds the sunracer Heliotrope 1996 : enters the 4th World Solar Challenge with sunracer Heliotrope 2006 : starts building the sunracer Formula SolarE for circuit races 2009 : wins the French Solar Event’s Solar Challenge with sunracer Formula SolarE 2014 : starts building the Formula Giol EV 2016 : Formula Giol EV's Concept is displayed at Paris Auto Show |
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