Solar Cars : Racing TeamsSome of these university teams run "adopt-a-cell" programs to support their solar car development, any foster parents out there? |
USA Universities |
Alabama |
Sol of Auburn
Auburn University | What started as an idea for a Mechanical Engineering senior project to build a small remote-control solar-powered car has mushroomed into a the largest undergraduate engineering project ever undertaken a Auburn University. |
Arizona |
Arizona Solar
Racing Team
University of Arizona | Makers of the
"Drifter" solar car. |
California |
Solar Eagle
California State University, LA | With an award for its aerodynamic design, Solar Eagle 1 placed first in California and fourth in the Nation during the GM Sunrayce. More in the make... |
CalSol
California
University, Berkeley | CalSol is the UC Berkeley solar vehicle team, a completely student-run organization. |
Illinois |
Principia Solar Car
Principia College | It combines aircraft composite construction with satellite grade solar cells, and solid lithium-polymer batteries - all based on an ultra-light aluminum space frame chassis. |
nuSun
Northwestern University | Founded in 1998, the Northwestern
University Solar Car Team is an undergraduate student organization composed of
students and faculty advisors from the broad range of engineering disciplines at
Northwestern University working together to design, build, and race solar
electric vehicles for competition in the American Solar Challenge and Formula
Sun races. |
Illinois State University
University | Makers of the
Mercury solar car. |
Indiana |
| Rose-Hulman
Institute of Technology | Solar Phantom Team |
Iowa |
Team PrISUm
Iowa State University | One of the main goals of Team PrISUm is to educate the community about solar energy. Throughout the year we participate in several outreach events, listed below, to talk to various groups of people at schools, businesses, and public venues. |
Kansas |
Solar Racing Team
Kansas State University | Makers of these solar cars: Solution,
Apollo, CATalyst... |
Massachusetts |
MIT Solar Electric Vehicle
MIT | The MIT SEVT recently released Tesseract, the first in a new family of cars that take advantage of space-grade solar cells and the ISF 5000 regulations. Tesseract placed third in the 2003 World Solar Challenge across the Australian Outback. |
Michigan |
| Univ. of Michigan Solar Car Racing Team | The Michigan Solar Car Team is a non-profit, student run organization whose purpose is to design, finance, build and race a solar powered vehicle in several competitions across the US and the World. |
Minnesota |
| Univ. of Minnesota | The U of M Solar Vehicle Project was founded by a group of undergraduates in the Institute of Technology in 1990. The team survived and completed Aurora I in just three years to compete in the 1993GM Sunrayce. |
New York |
| Clarkson University Solar Knights | The Solar Knights are a group of young, dedicated engineering students. Started in 1990, the goal of the Solar Knights has been to develop and build a vehicle capable of transporting a human being over vast distances using only what energy is given off by the sun to power a fast, efficient and very environmentally-friendly car. |
South Dakota |
| South Dakota School of Mines and Technology | Makers of Solar Rolar, Dakota Sun, Dakota Heat, Solar Wind, Shock Hazard, ... solar cars. |
Texas |
| Winston Solar Car Team | The Winston Solar Car Team represents American high schools at the Australian World Solar Challenge. The Winston Team is the same group of young people who hosted this summer's Winston Solar Challenge at the world famous Texas Motor Speedway. |
Rice University Solar Car Team
Houston | The Rice University Solar Car team is an interdisciplinary group consisting of students from the various engineering disciplines, from the natural sciences, and from the social sciences and humanities as well. |
Canada |
Midnight Sun
Ontario, Univ. of Waterloo | The Midnight Sun Solar Race Team is the largest student-run project at the University of Waterloo. Every two years, we design and build a solar-powered car to race in the American Solar Challenge and the World Solar Challenge. |
Queen's University
Ontario, Kingston | The solar vehicle team has designed, built, and raced solar powered electric vehicles in international competitions since 1988, including Sunrayce, The Canadian Solar Discovery Challenge, the North American Solar Challenge and the World Solar Challenge. |
University of Toronto - Blue Sky Solar Racing
Ontario, Toronto | Blue Sky Solar Racing is made up of undergraduate and graduate students and alumni volunteers from the Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering, the Faculty of Arts & Science, and the Joseph L. Rotman School of Management. |
Polytechnique Montréal
Quebec | A non-profit association, regrouping several engineering students from different disciplines at Montreal’s École Polytechnique. The first car, Esteban I, participated to the American Solar Challenge 2001. |
Ecole de Technologie Supérieure
Quebec | Builders of the Eclipse solar car. |
MacMaster University
Quebec | Builders of the Fireball and Phoenix solar cars. |
Red River College
Manitoba | r3 Solar Car Team. |
European Universities |
Nuna3
Netherlands, TU Delft University | Solar car built by students, 3rd edition. |
Nuna2
Netherlands, TU Delft University | Nuna 2 is a solar car. In fact, she is the World Champion solar car, for it has won the World Solar Challenge in Australia in 2003. Top speed: 170 km/h, or +100mph´ |
Umicore Solar Team
Belgium | The Umicar solar car will be the first Belgian car to participate in the Australian WSC (2005). |
HeliosCar
France | Managed by egineering students, the association is based in the engineering school Hautes Etudes d’Ingénieur (HEI) in Lille. The aim of the association is to conceive and build solar vehicles in order to take part in solar races such as the World Solar Challenge in Australia. |
Asia & Australia |
Japan (some of these sites are only available in Japanese) |
| OSU Solar Team | Osaka Sangyo University |
| Yumekobo Solar Car Project | Kanazawa Institute of Technology |
| Sunlake Toyobo | TOYOBO Research Center Otsu |
| Kohka | Shizuoka Institute of Technology solar car club |
| Prominence | Solar powered vehicle weekend project |
| Kano Lab | Oyama National College of Technology |
| Rits Solar Car | Ritsumeikan University EV-racing team |
| JP-Next Age.com | Kyushu Tokai University solar car project |
Australia |
University of Calgary
Kingston | The solar vehicle team has designed, built, and raced solar powered electric vehicles in international competitions since 1988, including Sunrayce, The Canadian Solar Discovery Challenge, the North American Solar Challenge and the World Solar Challenge. |
| Queen's Solar Vehicle Team | The Queen's Solar Vehicle Team officially holds the record for "Furthest Distance Traveled by a Solar Car in One Journey" in the 2002 Guinness Book of World Records. |
| UNSW Solar Car Team | University of New South Wales |
Solar Powered Cars - Other than universities & schools |
xof1
Canada, Ontario | The dream of building a solar car and set a new world distance record.
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Aurora
Australia | Melbourne based non-profit Aurora Vehicle Association Inc developed this record-breaking solar car. A volunteer group of young enthusiasts, Aurora has existed since 1980. |
| Solar Car Team Jona Sun | Russian Journey |
Solar Motions
USA | Top ranked private solar car racing team in the United States based in the San Francisco Bay Area. A registered non-profit organization, Solar Motions is dedicated to fostering a public understanding of and enthusiasm for alternative sources of energy and efficient designs. |
Solar Cars - Races |
American Solar Challenge
USA | A competition to design, build and race solar-powered cars in a cross-country event. |
Winston Solar Challenge
USA | The WSC is a high school solar car race. The Winston Team also hosts Winston Science and teaches schools around the world how to build road-worthy solar cars. |
Dell-Winston School Solar Car Challenge
USA | The Dell-Winston School Solar Car Challenge started in 1995 to help motivate students in science and engineering. The Challenge, a part of the Winston School in Dallas, teaches high school students around the world how to build roadworthy solar cars. On even-numbered years, racing is on the world-famous Texas Motor Speedway; on odd-numbered years, the teams drive cross-country to share their projects with millions of people. |
Australian World Solar Challenge
Australia | In existence since 1987, the World Solar Challenge entrants will traverse more than 3,000km of the Australian continent from tropical Darwin to balmy Adelaide, in cars powered by nothing more than the sun. |
Rallye Solaire Phébus
France | Solar car race going through France and Spain. |
Suzuka
Japan | This race began in 1992.It has been authorized by Federation Internationale del'Automobile, the FIA. The race is run at an international race circuit where FIA Formula One World Championships are held |
World Solar-Car Rallye
Japan, Akita | Annual solar car race |
2006 World Solar Rally
Taiwan | The exciting route that will be traveled will lead teams past landmarks and cultural destinations including the Shueishang Tropic of Cancer Park in Chia-yi, Lukang Tienhou Temple in Changhua, Da-Jai as Jenlan Temple in Taichung, Chulu Pasture in Taitung, and Fong Kong in Pintong.
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Phaeton 2004
Greece | Phaethon 2004 constituted of two independent events, a circuit race event in a racetrack and a rally race. Starting point for the rally was the Olympic Stadium in Athens. |
SunRace
Australia | In November of 2003 John Hoerner, Founder and Director of SunRace,
suffered a number of severe strokes that impaired his eyesight and short term
memory. Due to this, SunRace was deferred for 2004. |
Model Solar Powered Car Races |
Junior Solar Sprint
USA | The U.S. Department of Energy's Junior Solar Sprint (JSS) Program is a classroom-based, hands-on educational program for 6th, 7th, and 8th grade students. JSS student teams apply math, science, and creativity to construct model solar-powered cars and race them in interscholastic competitions hosted within their schools or within their states or regions. |
Fuel Efficient Car Races (Incl. Fuel Cell Cars & Hybrids) |
| Progressive
Automotive X PRIZE | The Progressive Insurance Automotive X
PRIZE is a ten million dollar international competition to create an
economically viable vehicle that averages more than 100 miles per gallon
equivalent, and can be sold in units of ten thousand or more. |
Tour de Sol
USA, MA | Showcased vehicles that can cut gas prices today and competitors leading the way to a sustainable energy and transportation future. |
Shell Eco-Marathon
Europe | The Shell Eco-Marathon is an annual fuel-economy competition organized and/or supported by various Shell companies across Europe. Results have improved from a few hundred miles per gallon to the 2001 World Record of 10240 mpg by team Fancy Carol NOK of Japan. |
| Michelin Challenge Bibendum | The Michelin Challenge Bibendum is open to carmakers, universities, public or private companies and research institutes who wish to participate with production or prototypes / concept vehicles. |
| Total Economy Run | A cross-country race with mass-production cars where fuel efficiency determines the winner. |
World Economo Move
Japan | The first economy run race for the electric vehicle in the world. |
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Supermileage Competition | The Supermileage® competition provides engineering and technology students with a challenging design project that involves the development and construction of a single-person, fuel-efficient vehicle. Vehicles are powered by a small four-cycle engine. |
Green Grand
Prix
New York | The Green Grand Prix is an educational and
competitive event in Watkins Glen, NY. Our Road Rally has now been named THE DORIS BOVEE MEMORIAL ROAD RALLY. Doris Bovee was an environmental enthusiast and our road rally is a tribute to her. |
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