The fuse box is hooked up directly to electric utility transformers. From the transformers, the electricity goes through a cord at thirteen thousand watts and enters the fuse box, where it is broken into two lines of six and a half thousand watts. The lines go to a large power strip were the cars plug in and get charged up. Cars on average take about four to five hours to charge up. Although some of the bikes take only two hours, one van takes twelve hours.
Some cars are fuel and electrically powered, and others are solar powered.
They all have to charge at each stop. The charge is stored in batteries. The Solar Tiger has run into problems twice during the rally. Both times, however, event sponsors and race teams have volunteered their parts and services. The first problem they ran into was that both their front left shock and steering rods needed welding.