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 cross the line, and had made a several hour lead on the next vehicle, which crossed the line today. This morning we drove the solar car into the Adelaide city centre to cross the finish line in Victoria Square. The chequered flag for our team was waved by UNSW Vice-Chancellor, and team patron, Prof Mark Wainwright. Our team was the first to cross the finish line with a car using commercially available silicon solar cells. This is just one factor which has demonstrated our ability to construct an extremely high efficiency solar racing vehicle without excessive funding (the eight teams who finished in front of us all used 'space grade' solar cells).