Let's see what's happened since last week:
Challenger Class
2: University of Michigan
No updates from the team in the past week, as far as I know the car is still in transit.
7: MIT Solar Electric Vehicle Team
No major updates. The team has made a blog post very briefly describing their trip to Ford's wind tunnel earlier in the summer. Their ship tracker shows their container ship on the Pacific side of the Panama Canal, due to hit New Zealand on Sept 15th and presumably soon after to a port in Australia.
8: Punch Powertrain Solar Team
Some of the team members arrived in Adelaide mid-week, visited the Adelaide University team, and have completed the long drive to Darwin. More members have just arrived directly to Darwin.
9: Adelaide University Solar Racing Team
The team has posted an August newsletter (PDF warning). They have started test driving their car this week, which must be exciting for them - especially as this is their first car ever.
10: Tokai University Solar Car Team
No major updates from Tokai this week.
12: Cambridge University Eco Racing
CUER's team is hanging out in Sydney with WSU and Bochum waiting for their car to arrive - sounds like it's going to be any day now.
13: WSU Solar Car Project
WSU posted a quick August newsletter detailing some testing they've been doing on the car. They're keeping the finished car under wraps for a few more days - I believe they're scheduled to show it off on Tuesday.14: UKZN Solar Car
No major updates - still no word on if the car has shipped. The team has been doing a daily series on different team members on their Facebook.
EDIT: ScientificGems has kindly pointed me at an article indicating that UKZN was planning to ship their car out at the end of July.
EDIT: ScientificGems has kindly pointed me at an article indicating that UKZN was planning to ship their car out at the end of July.
15: Team Solaris
Team Solaris participated in a solar car event in Morocco over the weekend with their old car, S7. S8 is still in transit to Oz.
16: Stanford Solar Car Project
No big updates from Stanford last week. They've also made a blog post about their wind tunnel testing earlier in the summer.
18: EcoPhoton Solar Team
No updates since last week.
21: Solar Team Twente
Most of the team is in Australia and they report that the car will arrive next week. The team has been posting a series of retrospective blog posts, as well as a post about their custom motors.
22: Siam Technology College
23: MegaLux GAMF
25: Goko High School Solar Car Team
No updates in the past week.
26: Durham University Solar Car
No updates in the past week.
27: RVCE Solar Car Team
No updates on the car, but they have posted more sponsor thank-you notes to their Facebook this week.
30: Team Arrow
No major updates this week.
32: Principia Solar Car
No updates this week.
36: Anadolu Solar Team
No updates this week.
46: JU Solar Team
47: Nagoya Institute of Technology Solar Car Team
No updates this week.
51: KIT Solar Car Project
KIT posted a blog update last week. Google translate is a little rough, but it sounds like they're troubleshooting some issues with the car.
77: Blue Sky Solar Racing
No updates from Blue Sky this week. Their IndiGoGo for shipping the car that ended last week did not meet its funding goal, so I hope they manage to find other funds for shipping the car.
80: Beijing Institute of Technology
Still ???
82: Kookmin University Solar Car Team
Cruiser Class
11: Hochschule Bochum SolarCar Projekt
24: Istanbul Technical University Solar Car Team
No major updates - still no word on if the car has shipped.
28: SunSpec
31: ITS Solar Car Racing Team
The team uploaded a new photo of the car - it sounds like they've "re-unveiled" the car for WSC 2015. It has a new paint job, and loses the fake chrome grill.
33: IVE Solar Car
No major updates - still no word on if the car has shipped.
35: University of Minnesota Solar Vehicle Project
38: Persian Gazelle Solar Car
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40: Solar Team Eindhoven
Their car has arrived in in Australia and they're already set up in a workshop in Darwin. They've also posted a new vlog to Youtube.
43: Ardingly Solar Car
The team has been making a lot of posts to Facebook and Twitter, showing a high level of activity to get the car completed. In particular, a twitter post from Sept 10th implies that something is happening on the 25th. Official car unveiling? Shipping the car? It sounds like everything is coming down to the wire for these folks.
45: KGHM Lodz Solar Team
The Polish team started packing this week. They've also posted recordings of a bunch of local news stories to their Youtube.
75: UNSW Sunswift
Not too much to report; they're doing final preparations on the car.
88: Kogakuin University Solar Vehicle Project
No updates this week.
Adventure Class
6: PI Solar Car
No updates this week.
20: Houston Solar Race Team
The team has made a series of posts on their blog and Facebook about packing and final preparations on the car. They say that they will be shipping everything out on Wednesday.
34: Liberty Christian Solar Car Team
The team's car shipped a while ago, and the team tweeted that they'll be flying out around October 8th. Inspection starts on the 12th, so that doesn't leave a whole lot of time to debug issues with the car. Seawater exposure can really screw up solar car electronics...
42: TAFE SA Solar Spirit
No updates this week.
Hi Most_Dece,
ReplyDeleteName is Keno. I'm assembling a team of former solar racers to help write blogs and cover WSC15, to help compensate a bit for the loss of SolarRacing.Org.
Was wondering if you'd like to collaborate with us?
My twitter is @kenomg1
Or email you can email me on omm27@cam.ac.uk
We started this blog up for the same reason - you can see we're kinda using the same format. I shot you an email.
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