Everyone can have a place in the sun! This is especially true in the case of Éclipse V, a vehicle designed by a multidisciplinary team of 26 students from the École de technologie supérieure de Montréal and propelled exclusively by solar energy. An ardent defender of the environment, this fifth-generation vehicle, which is strengthened by two new technologies (IsoGrid, which reduces the vehicle’s weight, and super-capacitors, which favour faster acceleration), will try its luck at the prestigious World Solar Challenge in Australia this fall. The team is confidant it will improve on the 20th-place finish (out of 50 contestants) it earned at the 2001 American Solar Challenge. In addition to this event, the team behind the Éclipse V has made the promotion of solar energy its raison-d’être. Accordingly, the Éclipse V promoters last year undertook an extensive CEGEP tour under the slogan 'Drive the Future.' In collaboration with the universities of Toronto and Waterloo, they travelled from Waterloo to Montreal, doing numerous stopovers with the aim of heightening public awareness.