2006-2007

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New suspension underway with the help of Dirt Works

The design of our new suspension system has been finalised. The system was designed by a final year Mechanical Engineering student for their thesis project. We're now busy ordering in materials and organising for all the components to be manufactured. One of the crucial components of any suspension...
Posted: July 5, 2007 3:00 PM by | Tagged with: mechanical sponsors

Jaycar backs the team again

We have great news to share today! Jaycar Electronics have announced they will be sponsoring the team for a further 12 months. Jaycar were the naming rights sponsors of Sunswift III during our record-breaking campaign from Perth...
Posted: June 20, 2007 3:00 PM by | Tagged with: sponsors

NRMA continues to support sunswift

NRMA Motoring and Services is continuing to support the team in many practical ways. Earlier this year they loaned one of their patrol vans complete with tools as a support car for our record attempt. Recently, they've made another donation...
Posted: May 31, 2007 3:00 PM by | Tagged with: sponsors

Sunswift in the finals!

This year the team decided to enter in the Sydney Division Engineers Australia excellence awards. The Engineering Excellence Awards is a program which recognises the...
Posted: May 15, 2007 3:00 PM by | Tagged with:

CeBIT 2007

Well, CeBIT is over for another year - this time was the most successful ever, with over 700 exhibitors and 30,000+ people through the door. Held on the 1-3 May CeBIT Australia is Australasia's leading Information & Communications Technology...
Posted: May 3, 2007 3:00 PM by | Tagged with: display

Yagoona Lions Club Fair

Today the team brought Jaycar Sunswift III to the Yagoona Lions Club annual Autumn fair. The fair was held at Gazzard Park, Yagoona and showcased many interesting community stalls. The day is designed to raise money for...
Posted: April 21, 2007 3:00 PM by | Tagged with: composites display

Sunswift on the front page

Our latest car Jaycar Sunswift III is on the cover of the just-released 2007 Jaycar Electronics Engineering Catalogue. We're also featured in several pages throughout the catalogue (the solar cells section being one of them of course!). The new catalogue is packed with over 6,000 products....
Posted: March 26, 2007 3:00 PM by | Tagged with:

Boeing Open Day

Today Boeing Hawker de Havilland held a family open day at their Bankstown facility. The purpose of the day was to give family and friends of Boeing employees some insight into the first-class manufacturing being undertaken. The UNSW SRT was happy to display Jaycar Sunswift III on the day...
Posted: March 11, 2007 3:00 PM by | Tagged with: display sponsors

Sunswift shatters record by 3 days

Yesterday the UNSW Solar Racing Team rolled into Sydney after five and a half days on the road from Perth to Sydney. The team was welcomed at Circular Quay by a crowd of supporters and media. Representatives from the University of New South Wales and Gary Johnston of Jaycar Electronics...
Posted: January 16, 2007 3:00 PM by | Tagged with:

Monash to Gundagai (day 5)

Today we put another 800km’s behind us, with the only real drama being a near flat tyre on one of our support cars. Apart from this, the traffic also started to get heavier now that we are passing through slightly more built up areas. Going across the Nullarbor we did have some fairly large...
Posted: January 14, 2007 3:00 PM by | Tagged with:
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