University Makers of the Mercury solar car.
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.
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.