Just a bit more solar car stuff. Here are some story-telling charts. Challenger class winners #3 Brunel / Delft ran a perfect race. Orange dots show control stops and black squares show overnight stops. The dashed line shows their average speed of 86.6 km/h. Team #48 Neumann had to make some kind of repairs on Wednesday … … Continue reading →| Scientific Gems
The Bridgestone World Solar Challenge is over (see also the results and my illustrated teams list), and I am thinking about technology issues. There have been several interesting examples, but the two most notable are the fins originally pioneered by the Belgians (and now used by three other teams) and the perovskite solar cells from … … Continue reading →| Scientific Gems
Day 2 of the Bridgestone World Solar Challenge road race is over (see my illustrated teams list). Above are control stop times for Cruisers (Solaride got into Dunmarra at 09:28:26 and into Tennant Creek at 14:47:02) and below for top Challengers (Delft/Brunel got into Barrow Creek at 13:30:00). Delft/Brunel have deployed their fin. Challengers Adelaide … … Continue reading →| Scientific Gems
Delft (Brunel/Nuna) on the track at Hidden Valley. Of the 37 teams intending to race in the Bridgestone World Solar Challenge on 24 to 31 August (see my illustrated teams list), ten appear to be in…| Scientific Gems
On June 19, I had the great pleasure of attending the solar car reveal from the Australian National University (ANU) team, who race as number 41 (see the YouTube livestream). They are my local team…| Scientific Gems