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Campbelltown Ecoliving Fair
With everything from worm farms to a solar car, the Campbelltown Ecoliving Fair had a wide range of displays aimed at promoting energy, waste and water saving initiatives. The fair was held at a new Landcom development •Park Central• in Campbelltown which has incorporated various energy...Solar car display at NRMA AGM
Today the UNSW Solar Racing Team displayed our solar car at the NRMA’s Annual General Meeting in Darling Harbour. While the poor weather might have been the reason for a relatively small turnout at the meeting, our display still attracted a fair amount of interest from passers by. Apart from...Team receives grant from U-Committee
The U-Committee has announced that it will once again provide a grant towards the efforts of the UNSW Solar Racing Team. The grant was specifically directed to the costs associated with thePictures available from WSC race campaign
A selection of pictures from the UNSW SRT's recent World Solar Challenge race campaign have now been uploaded to our UNSW Sunswift III gallery page. Our new gallery pages also include pictures of our previous car,Team finishes World Solar Challenge in 5 days
Yesterday, at 5.06pm the UNSW SRT crossed the finish of timing for the World Solar Challenge. We saw the best performance yet from our solar car, UNSW Sunswift III, which averaged an impressive 90km/h over the course of the day despite some patches of cloud. We were the 9th solar car to...Fourth day in the desert
Waking up to an overcast sky we thought we were in for a very slow day. Thankfully, the forecast was wrong, and by midday the clouds had mainly burnt off. On the other hand, our luck with flat tyres till yesterday certainly ran out today, with our front left tyre wearing down to the canvas several...Day three
With slightly better performance from our solar array today, our team was able to proceed with an average speed of around 80km/h. Further to this we overtook three vehicles this morning, Umicar (Belgium), Solution (Netherlands) and Southern Aurora (Australia). We passed the Alice Springs control...Two days down...
Today the team proceeded on after a much needed sleep under the stars. The main delay today was a loose connector to our wheel motor, which was discovered at our campsite this morning. After this we were able to travel for most of the day between 70 and 80km/h. We passed two control points today,...UNSW SRT makes the start of WSC
After working through the night to make adjustments to our vehicle, our team made it to the start line in Darwin. A final inspection of the vehicle was conducted by officials at the start line and then the team was off. We started last on the grid as a result of our failure to participate in the...[ 81 results ]
