Stanford’s Solar Car Project has entered the oldest solar-powered car race, the Bridgestone World Solar Challenge, with their ambitious solar car Sundae. The rules limit the cars’ solar array sizes, and nearly all of the energy has to come from the sun.
“The race rules are written to encourage us to use emerging cell chemistries and to work creatively with companies and research labs to get access to experimental materials and products,” said team leader Kelsey Josund. “Over the 30 years of solar car competition, the allowed technologies and the applications of them have kept pace with the field; our cars today use almost entirely different components than in the early days.”
Sundae operates with microcontrollers that communicate via Ethernet to track competitors better.
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