Dar-winning
It has been an action-filled four days since we arrived in Darwin Monday night. Here are the highlights: As soon as we hit Darwin pavement we unloaded the solar car at Hidden Valley Raceway and met some of the other teams such as Stanford, CalSol from Berkeley, and ETS from Montreal. Besides acclimating to the [...]
G’Day from Kulgera!
Today was a big Mock Race Day for the Sunswift fleet. We travelled one of the most gruelling stretches of the WSC, starting in Glendambo in SA and finishing at the NT border. The car was on the road by 8 AM as planned. With all systems functioning seamlessly, the fleet drivers perfected their radio [...]
Testing & Training Update
During the last few weeks, on top of all the work going on at the workshop, we have been also been busy testing and characterising Ivy in preparation for the World Solar Challenge. We’ve been fortunate enough to get access to the Sydney International Regatta Centre, which has a beautifully flat stretch of road alongside [...]
Introducing Sunswift Live
As Project Manager I don’t often have time to get to work on any technical projects from top to bottom, but 6 months ago I decided to put my foot down and get involved. We often hear from our fans that it’s difficult to find out what happening with the team while on the race. [...]
Sunswift IV
Sunswift IV 2009 – present Background Ivy was built in 2009 for the 2009 WSC. She was the 3rd vehicle that Sunswift had ever designed and built from scratch – although many successful elements from previous cars were retained in Ivy’s design. Achievements 6th overall in the 2011 World Solar Challenge, 1st in Production Class. 4th overall in [...]
Team Updates coming soon!
Hey all, This is a new post to let everybody know that we will be letting everybody know what’ve been up to very soon UNSW is in week 11, which means exams, assignments, and less time for Sunswift as we’d like. The good news is that we’ve been quiet about a lot of really awesome [...]
Our Sponsors
GOLD The Faculty of Engineering of the University of NSW provides the UNSW SRT with a monetary grant, use of a range of facilities as well as valuable advice and support. The UNSW SRT helps promote the faculty at events such as UNSW Open Day and Sunsprint (model solar car challenge). NICTA is Australia’s Information [...]
Our Cars
The University of New South Wales Solar Racing Team have raced many cars since they began in 1996. Below is a list of the four main cars we have produced over the years. Sunswift IV 2009 – present Ivy on the first day of racing in the 2009 WSC Background Ivy was built in [...]
UNSW students break world record
The Sunswift team’s full year of planning, negotiating, and testing finally paid off yesterday. We smashed the Guinness World Record for fastest Solar-Powered vehicle by over 10 kmh. Barton Mawer officially broke the record at around 10:30am with a speed of 88.738 kmh. Runs continued until 1:30pm when rain prevented further attempts. The two official [...]
Video Blog #2 – Testing Run
Wednesday Test Run from UNSW Solar Racing Team on Vimeo.
