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Team PrISUm

  • . E-mail us if you would like the solar car at an event.
  • . The newest solar car Fusion , will also be there so come and help the team! The team will also be in the VEISHEA Parade, April 22, with two solar cars and have an Open House later that day.
  • . This is a great opportunity to come and receive a tour of the garage where all the solar cars are actually built! Even if you are unable to come to these events, please visit our Sponsorship Page and find out how you can help Team PrISUm get back on the road again! [02:02 PM CST] - GSB Zero Funds Again! Friday, March 17 2006, 1:42 pm Before the Fusion Project , Team PrISUm had always received funding from the Government of the Student Body (GSB).
  • . Look for our cars April 22! [02:17 PM CST] - Website and Mailing Lists Thursday, February 02 2006, 12:00 am As I'm sure many of you have noticed, there hasn't been much activity on the website or the mailing lists as of late.
  • . Our old trailer is no longer road worthy, so we have no way to move our car.



    Solar Car RAYCES | eThemes | eMINTS
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  • . Title: Solar Car RAYCES Description: Learn about solar cars and rayces.
  • . Explore these links to find information about solar car components and their specifications.
  • . Meet teams of famous solar cars and learn about competitions and winners.
  • . Grade Level: 5, 6, 7 Resource Links: Learn about driver control, electrical system, drive train, mechanical system, solar array, and body and chassis of a solar car.
  • . Learn about the Dell-Winston solar car rayce.
  • . Click on the "Solar Racing History" link on the red background at the left to learn the history of solar car rayces and how this modern development is related to inventions of XVIII century.
  • . Includes photographs of old solar cars.
  • . Click on the "2003 Event" link to find records of average speed and distance covered by cars during the rayce.
  • . This movie describes the use of space technologies in the Dutch solar car Nuna.



    University of Waterloo Midnight Sun Solar Race Car Team
  • . Please check us out at Thanks to everyone who helped make the North American Tour a success! RIM Continues Sponsorship with Midnight Sun IX 2006-03-20 15:04:34 A big thank you goes out to RIM, who has decided to continue sponsoring the Midnight Sun Solar Car Team at a Gold Level.
  • . Please check out their website for more details at Thanks to the Autoshow for letting us display our car this year! Recruitment Meeting 2006-01-16 20:48:35 The Midnight Sun Solar Car Team is looking for new members! If you're interested in learning about the latest solar technologies, want some practical engineering experience, want to get your hands dirty, meet some great people and want to have unlimited amounts of fun...then come to our recruitment meeting on Wednesday, January 18, 2006 at 6:00pm in RCH 301 .
  • . All faculties are welcome! No experience needed! Check out our to get just a taste of the solar car experience! Midnight Sun VIII Spends Day In Windtunnel 2005-11-30 08:54:18 On Sunday November 20th the Midnight Sun team packed Midnight Sun VIII into the trailer and set off to Ottawa to the NRC-IAR 9m x 9m closed circuit windtunnel at the Uplands Research Campus.



    University of Waterloo Midnight Sun Solar Race Car Team
  • Search midsun.uwaterloo.ca uwaterloo.ca History Midnight Sun VIII , our most recent car, finished 5th - and was the top Canadian entry once again - in the 2005 American Solar Challenge which ran from Austin, Texas to Calgary, Alberta.
  • . The Midnight Sun VII car was also used in the 2004 North American tour covering 15, 070km in 40 days around North American.
  • . The team captured the Guinness World Record for the "Longest Journey by a Solar Powered Car." The Midnight Sun VI car finished 3rd overall - and top Canadian team - in the 2001 American Solar Challenge! Midnight Sun VI was our second car to travel to the World Solar Challenge in Australia, where we placed 15th overall! Midnight Sun VI is one of our most successful cars.
  • . We took home a 5th standing in the Cut-out class, a 25th overall standing and a "Battler’s Award, " which was awarded to the team for "overcoming the most adversity to the finish line." As our media coverage may have explained, our car broke down at 500km from the finish because of a motor failure.

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    Current Sponsors
  • r 3 Solar Car Team Current Sponsors Without the following generous companies and individuals, this project would not be successful: Primary Sponsor - Single-largest contributor Still looking! Get in touch with to start negotiations! Platinum - Over $20000 Manitoba Transportation and Government Services graciously donated $35, 000 to the r3 Solar Car Team effort.
  • . These funds will be used to assist in the purchase of the high-efficiency electric motor and solar array, and includes a gas-electric hybrid Team Caravan for the duration of the competition and its fuel costs.
  • . Boeing's contribution to the effort includes completing the tooling and fabrication of the carbon-fiber body.
  • . The r3 Solar Car Team is blessed to have such local expertise with composites manufacturing, this being the same team in contention to design and produce the Boeing 777 wing-to-body fairing.
  • . The r3 Solar Car Team is assured they will surprise many with one of the best bodies, if not the very best, at the rayces.


    Team Momentum starts 'rayce' at Auto Show
  • Updated 5:30 PM January 20, 2005 Team Momentum starts 'rayce' at Auto Show By Laura Bailey News Service The University's Team Momentum showed off its solar car—complete with space-age improvements in the body design and mechanical equipment—last week at Detroit's North American International Auto Show (NAIAS).
  • . Engineering students Peter Balogh (mechanical engineering), left, and Mirai Aki (electrical engineering) peel off the cover to unveil Team Momentum’s new solar car Jan.
  • . But team director Michael Brackney is confident that vigorous team development, combined with design improvements in this year's car, will give the team the winning edge.
  • . It's important to note that in every race cycle the Michigan team builds an entirely new car; it does not use the previous year's vehicle, team members say.
  • . Following are a few of the new car's design elements that the team hopes will propel the car across the finish line before its competitors: • Real-time operating system (RTOS): The RTOS is the same architecture used in defense department helicopters and, indeed, a defense contractor donated it to the team.


    University of Michigan
  • . 17, 2004 U-M Team Momentum to start 'rayce' at Auto Show M-Pulse at 2003 Auto Show ANN ARBOR, Mich.—The University of Michigan Team Momentum will officially reveal its new solar car at Detroit's North American Auto Show in January, with its space-age improvements in the body design and mechanical equipment.
  • . But team director Michael Brackney is confident that vigorous team development, combined with design improvements in this year's new car will give the team the winning edge.
  • . It's important to note that every race cycle, the Michigan team builds an entirely new car; it does not use the previous year's vehicle.
  • . Here are a few of the new car's design elements that the team hopes will propel the car across the finish line before its competitors: • Real-time operating system—The RTOS is the same architecture used in defense department helicopters, and indeed, a defense contractor donated it to the team.
  • . The last U-M solar car had a more distributed network.


    Principia Solar Car Team: American Solar Challenge 2003
  • 618.374.5290 Solar Car 1 Maybeck Place Elsah, IL 62028 American Solar Challenge 2003 Team Race Updates (July 13-23 in the USA) Click to view the photos from the race.
  • . Principia's Final Results: 4th Place About the race (from the ): The 2003 American Solar Challenge was a cross-country solar car rayce that was held from July 13 to 23, 2003.
  • . Robyn Goacher Team Leader Principia College Solar Car Team The Principia College Solar Car Team has just arrived in full in Chicago.
  • . A small group drove out early to check us in and attend an all-team meeting while the remainder of the team stayed behind to complete some on-road energy model testing with our assembled car on the river road on campus.
  • . Robyn Goacher Team Leader Principia College Solar Car Team Well, it has been an interesting and fruitful morning.
  • . At the electrical station, each of the battery packs are weighed and every wire in the car is inspected for correct connections and ratings for its purpose.
  • . In this years car, we have control systems that are both analog and digital and while both of these systems are approved, analog is working better right now.

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    Principia Solar Car Team: Formula Sun Grand Prix 2005
  • 618.374.5290 Solar Car 1 Maybeck Place Elsah, IL 62028 Formula Sun Grand Prix 2005 Team Race Updates (May 14-21 in Topeka, KS) About the race: The Formula Sun Grand Prix is an international closed-course track race for solar cars held each May at Heartland Park Raceway - Race Track in Topeka Kansas.
  • . Although the team did not qualify, we worked on our car, received valuable feedback from inspectors, and interacted with other solar car teams.
  • . We decided to go through mechanical and electrical inspection that afternoon so that we could get early feedback on our car.
  • . Also, at the preliminary qualifier we can see what the inspectors like about all of the cars, and friendships with other teams develop so that we can help each other fix common problems.
  • . Most of Tuesday was spent working on our car.
  • . The car handled the test with grace.
  • . Our plan for the day was to finish the hinging, wire our turn signals, and allow our solar car drivers to practice egress.
  • . We were able to maintain power to the car just long enough to check our turn signals, horn, and rear view camera in the Body & Sizing station, but when a component of the hinging also gave out during our first egress attempt at the Driver station, we decided to pack up and come home.


    Electric Car Racing
  • 2 NEW FUNNY SIGNS GETTING OUT THERE ROADSIDE MURAL DRIVING TIP WHAT IS THAT THING? LIVING LAS VEGAS Formula Lightning! Bowling Green State University's winning car, driver and team Electric Race Cars from across the Continent Meet at Indianapolis Raceway Park October, 1999 Indianapolis, Indiana— We all know electric cars are quiet , and they're friendly to the environment.
  • . The race cars we watched at the Formula Lightning Classic prove that electricity isn't just for golf carts any more.
  • . Faculty adviser Barry Piersol with Bowling Green State's winning car Seven university-sponsored cars and teams gathered from across the country to compete at Indianapolis Raceway Park in what Bowling Green faculty member Barry Piersol called "the newest academic sport in the nation." We joined them on the infield as they prepared for the race.
  • . Professor Russ Eberhart of IUPUI "It's history in the making, " said Russ Eberhart, a dean and professor at Indiana University/ Purdue University and one of the race's organizers, "We've never had more people in the stands, and this is the first time an electric car race has a gasoline-powered truck rally as a supporting event.


    Team PrISUm - Team History
  • . At that time, the team was known simply by the name "PrISUm, " which was also the name of the first car produced by the team.
  • . The name stuck, and the second car also bore the PrISUm name, this time as PrISUm II .
  • . For the 1995 Sunrayce, however, the team decided to take the name for itself, and to give each car a name as individual and unique as the car itself.
  • . PrISUm CYnergy , the 3rd solar car produced by the team, would be the first to carry such a name.
  • . Team PrISUm has been quite successful in the past events that it has competed in, and it is estimated that more than one million people have seen the ISU solar cars at various events, including live appearances, local news media, and national media such as ESPN, and CNN.
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  • . The ASC 2001, which is the longest solar car rayce to date, wound from Chicago to Claremont, California.
  • . Odyssey was slowed down early in the race due to some problems with its trackers, but managed to place 16th out of 30 cars in the rayce.


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    University of Calgary Solar Powered Car - SOLEON - Solar Power - Solar Race - Calgary Solar Team

  • Calgary Auto and Truck Show March 8-12 2006 Roundupcentre & Corral, Stampede Park Heard all about the car but haven't seen it in person yet? Come down to the Calgary Auto Show and get your chance to see the car, speak to the team, and get free stuff.
  • . )Chalk up another continent and 3, 000 kilometres for the little solar-powered car from the University of Calgary.
  • . Soleon , racing in its first Panasonic World Solar Challenge, finished first in its Production-class category and 10 th overall after surging past a struggling Belgian car on the final day of racing.
  • . “This is just a phenomenal accomplishment for a first-time solar car team, ” said Dr.
  • . Daryl Carswell, the faculty representative traveling with the group.
  • . “Who could ask for more than to have a multi-disciplinary team of U of C students go up against the top solar car teams in the world – and come away with first in their class?” The U of C team ran alongside Soleon past the checkered flag, as boisterous students from other solar car teams applauded.


    Experimental Vehicle Team
  • . The competition, which challenges universities, high schools, and individual inventors from all over the country to build a small, one-person, solar car or a pedal-powered solar bike, has competitors race 100 km (62 miles) on a closed circuit around the Crowder College campus.
  • . Saint Thomas Academy had two projects entered in this year's race with high expectations for their redesigned "S-Class" solar car.
  • . Gentner and seemed on its way to a dominating win when a visit by an electrical gremlin slowed the car dramatically, allowing rival University of Missouri-Rolla to catch and pass the faltering Saint Thomas Academy car on the last lap of the race.
  • . The team still managed to win the High School Division in a convincing manner, finishing multiple laps ahead of the next placed car.
  • . The student-built Saint Thomas Academy bike featured a full fairing to make the driver more aerodynamic and a trailer that carried a 1.3 meter squared solar array.
  • . The team continued to put the whip to the carbon-fiber machine as it became obvious the group still had a chance to upset the overall lead of the University of Missouri-Rolla.


    The Epoch Times | Stanford Car Runs on Golden Sunshine
  • Features Advertisement > | Region: > | Stanford Car Runs on Golden Sunshine By Maria Daly and Ben Bendig Epoch Times San Francisco Staff Mar 02, 2006 A team of engineering students from Stanford University pose next to Solstice, a solar-powered car which won the 2005 North American Solar Challenge.
  • . Team members (from left to right) Brian Cheung, Tommy Hanson, and Jimmy Caputo were instrumental in making this car so successful in last year's "rayce." (Maria Daly/The Epoch Times) (3072 x 2304 px, 96 dpi) Clouds: bane of the "rayce" and solar cars across the globe.
  • . However, no amount of recent inclement weather—clouds or otherwise—could keep Palo Alto from recognizing the achievements of the Stanford Solar Car Project, honoring the group this Tuesday in front of City Hall.
  • . Palo Alto Mayor Judy Kleinberg commended the Stanford Solar Car Project for its victory in the 2005 North American Solar Challenge and its strides in innovation.
  • . The car, named Solstice, came in first in the stock class of the competition, known as the "rayce, " which runs from Austin, Texas to Calgary, Canada.


    UC Solar Team - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  • . This is an image of the X1 (AKA Dawning ), the prototype solar car created by the UC Solar team for testing purposes.
  • . Miracle workers The team performed a "miracle" by managing to establish a strong student base with which to construct the car, procure significant sponsorship and successfully build a highly successful vehicle with limited experience all in approximately 9 months.
  • . The X1 (Prototype) In preparation for its first, the UC Solar team decided to construct and test a prototype of their designs before building the final car.
  • . The X1 was constructed from a steel chasis with a shell which was coated with which made the vehicle approximately twice the final weight of its sister car.
  • . In the 2005 NASC, Soleon, their first generation placed 13th out of 17 cars that made it to the finish line.
  • . The Cars X1 (Prototype) Maximum Achieved Speed: ~70km/h Solar Array Type: none Chasis: Steel Shell Composition: & Commissioned: May 2005 Decommissioned: Still in service Current Uses: X1 is currently used for design analysis training for new team members.


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  • . After qualifying on Saturday, Gemini was set to start in 11th position out of 22 cars.
  • . By the end of day one, Gemini was the fourth car to reach Dunmarra, the second checkpoint.
  • . The team was also plagued by pre-rayce car problems.
  • . Gemini’s array produces about 1980W of power, one of the most powerful array on a car, knowing this and the problems from this summer, a new system was built and implemented for the World Solar Challenge, ” said Ron Yeung, QSVT’s Electrical Manager.
  • . It also passed the egress test, requiring the driver and passenger to be able to leave the car in under 15 seconds in case of an emergency; this vehicle did it in 10s.
  • . Gemini finished this year’s American Solar Challenge in 7th place, it was the only two seater solar car that completed the 3680 km race across the United States.
  • . In 2001, the team’s eighth car, Mirage, placed 4th overall at ASC and 5th overall in the World Solar Challenge in Australia.

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