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Track Buzz: First Impressions
Santosh Kumar was a member of the 2009 and 2011 Michigan Solar Car Team, and he has kindly agreed to write blog posts for this website. He is in Darwin, so he is my “eyes on location”. I’m very happy...
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Route data is extremely important for good strategy. You use it to model power consumption, run simulations, figure out how far you have to go to a stage stop, etc. The Stanford Team has kindly shared...
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Track Buzz: Concentrator Talk
Jeroen made a previous post about how concentrators work. People here have been asking me how much of a benefit the ones Nuna 7 will provide. Let’s do some math! Now, ideally you create mathematical...
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Guest blog: Carrera Solar Atacama
For the past few weeks I’ve been asking around a bit amongst people from the solar racing world if they’d be interested in writing a guest blog. Never having been in a solar team myself and never...
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Guest blog: Sasol Solar Challenge
The following guest blog was kindly written by Marriël Edzes, a member of the organisation of the Sasol Solar Challenge in South Africa. For teams that are considering competing in this event, or...
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Guest blog: solar racing strategy
Solar racing is a strategy game For today’s guest blog Georg Russ (strategist with the Solar Energy Racers team from Switzerland) wrote a truly excellent blog post about the background of data...
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Guest blog: Cruising ahead
As a follow-up to yesterday’s post about the 2015 World Solar Challenge regulation changes, here’s an excellent guest blog post by Nigel. Regular visitors of this website may recognise him as a very...
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Guest blog: Simulating the World Solar Challenge
The following post is republished from Tony Dekker’s excellent blog Scientific Gems: Inspired by the recent guest post by Georg Russ, I have built a (very simplistic) simulation of the World Solar...
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Is this the second golden age of solar car racing?
A guest blog post written by Dr Graham Doig of UNSW Australia, as Sunswift waits for the fog to clear from the track so they can start their attempt to break a long-standing international speed record...
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CUER car presentation: “EVA-LUTION”
EVA front quarter view This website’s “UK correspondent” Nigel attended CUER‘s presentation of their new car EVA, and wrote the excellent article below. I think it’s good to see that the team is...
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Guest blog: Tips for crowdfunding a solar team
In the first few months of 2015, the Lodz Solar Team (from Poland, website in Polish) organised a crowdfunding campaign (website in Polish) to help fund their journey to Australia. They exceeded their...
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Guest blog: Leadership & Management. What’s the difference?
The following guest blog post was kindly written by Keno Mario, the team leader of the 2013 Cambridge University Eco Racing team. He takes an engaging look, not at the engineering side of running a...
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Guest blog: SOELA solar car race
One of the solar cars in the first (2013) instalment of the event Since 2013, the SOELA organisation has been organising a solar car event for local technical schools in the city of Sisak, Croatia. The...
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WSC Insider: Interview with an Observer
Judith Claasen interviews Roslyn Jan, an observer with 16 years experience of the World Solar Challenge. Roslyn Jan, WSC Observer Roslyn Jan lives in Manly, Sydney and is an observer at the World...
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