Ethan Lei, University of Michigan Solar Car Team driver and U-M mechanical engineering undergraduate student, drives his team’s car, Astrum, along the Stuart Highway south of Erldunda, Australia on October 24, 2023 as part of the 2023 Bridgestone World Solar Challenge. Image credit: Levi Hutmacher, Michigan Engineering
For the first time since 2018, the University of Michigan solar car team will stake their claim as one of the nation’s best Sporting a brand new roll cage, the University of Michigan solar car team’s latest vehicle will speed down parts of the Oregon Trail and seven other national historic … [continued]
If you’ve ever read about or followed solar car racing, you figure out pretty quick that it’s not like other races. The cars generally don’t go very fast, sometimes averaging only 15 MPH. The challenge is how fast the vehicles can go powered only by the sun on their backs, … [continued]
Adventure awaits for hundreds of bright international minds when the Bridgestone World Solar Challenge makes its return next year. A new generation of solar cars will travel 3000 kilometres between the Australian cities of Darwin and Adelaide from 20–27 October 2023. Each will be engineered, built, and driven by teams … [continued]
Check out the following wind and solar news if you haven’t gotten enough of a fix from CleanTechnica‘s wind and solar coverage. Wind News Innovations for Higher Turbine Capacity Factors Towers are getting taller, controls more intelligent, and ultrasound can now be used to measure wind velocity while we wait for … [continued]
Originally published on RenewEconomy. By Sophie Vorrath Two years after Dutch students from the Eindhoven University of Technology produced the prototype of a solar-powered family car called Stella, its progeny, the “energy positive” four-seater Stella Lux, is set to compete in Australia in the 2015 World Solar Challenge, a 3,000km … [continued]
