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Preambel

Knowing

• that human activities lead to an increase in environmental damages, to a change in the world climate, and that they may have negative effects on ecosystems as well as on human beings,

• that most of the worldwide emissions come from developed countries and from the transport sector, at a moment where the per-capita emissions in developing countries are still relatively small,

• that changes in climate will have global effects and that it is therefore the task of us all to cooperate as largely as possible and to participate at an effective and international commerce according to our common but different responsibilities and capabilities, our social and economic situation, and to take efficient measures for environmental protection, especially in the transport sector,

the International Solarcar Federations (ISF) lays down the following Technical Regulations according to art. 15 lit. e of the ISF statutes.

Introduction

Today's environmental and traffic problems ask for a new way of thinking. It is therefore the aim of the ISF to build a new traffic and sustainable energy culture for the 21st century, and to promote an environmental-friendly energy supply in the field of energy-efficient solar light vehicles.

With these Technical Regulations (TR), the ISF tries to find a solution for today's polluting, individual transport system in order to massively reduce emissions and to prevent the irreversible exploitation of non-renewable energies on the long-term.
For the future, today's driving energies shall be replaced by solar energy in order to introduce the "zero-emission-vehicles" (ZEV) according to the California Clean Air Act.
Energetically useless car surfaces, parking areas, streets, parks etc. shall be used for energy production systems in the transport sector, i.e. for solar light vehicles connected to the grid. By doing so, no additional cultural land will be needed for their energy supply.

The International Solarcar Federation (ISF) was founded in 1987 and is registered as an Association in the Swiss Commercial Register. In addition to the ISF statutes, which regulate the relationship between the different organizers of solarcar events, the following Technical Regulations regulate all points necessary for the realization of the single solar events in the transport sector.

Inasmuch as the events are organized and realized according to the ISF aims, these TR may be used by all organizers of such solarcar events, by solarcar drivers, as well as by participants at solarcar events throughout the world. The TR determine a standard for the most important principles and most necessary terms as well as for the regulation of basic transport questions.

Every ISF organizer may lay down further regulations and detailed rules in addition to the TR which will be labelled as "special regulations" (SR). If such SR meet the aims of the ISF and do not contradict the TR, and if they were submitted to and accepted by the ISF Executive Committee on time, they will form an integrated part of these TR. Such SR are mentioned in part VIII as annexes to the TR and will be numbered.

We wish you a lot of success when realizing these Technical Regulations and hope for many solarcar events in the future. Special thanks to the American (Sunrayce/ATdS), Australian (WSC/GSIS), Danish (SCD), German (BVS/VFS), Japanese (WSRJ), and Swiss (STdS/ASEM) Solarcar Associations for their cooperation and their important contributions to these ISF Regulations.

For the International Solarcar Federation (ISF)

Richard J. King	president	(Washington, USA)
Takahiro Iwata	chief Tech. Reg.	(Saitama, Japan)
Hans Tholstrup	vice-president	(Sydney, Australia)
Gallus Cadonau	general secretary	(Zürich, Schwizerland)
Bettina Kosub Arno Paulus	Media ESP VPr.	(Berlin, Germany)

Washington/Zurich, spring 1996