World Solar Challenge with Sunswift Racing from UNSW

What is a solar car?
Experience the thrill of renewable energy innovation as we delve into the world of electric vehicles. Anna Matthews is a remarkable young engineer from the renowned UNSW Sunswift Racing Team. From their participation in the World Solar Car Challenge to their groundbreaking achievements, Anna sheds light on the incredible capabilities of their homegrown EVs. Discover how they've pushed the boundaries of comfort, range, and sustainability, all while breaking world records. Get ready for an inspiring journey filled with passion, engineering brilliance, and the future of renewable energy.

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Time Stamps
00:00 Introduction
00:42 Comfort and Innovation in Solar Challenge Cars
01:33 Testing and Achievements
02:19 The Role of Solar Panels
04:09 The Driving Experience
04:35 UNSW's Contributions to Solar Innovations
06:13 Passion for Renewable Energy

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[SmartEnergyLab]

Loved your enthusiasm Anna Matthews. Your explanations of the project is truly inspiring. I'm sure you're on to great things (maths + environment = great engineer).

[dtl]

Excellent video!!! These young people are amazing!

[david.e.h.]

what a great video! i love seeing what these young people are doing. evolution of a vehicle segment takes time. it looks like the future of solar/ electric vehicles is in good hands!

[david.e.h.]

im heading to San Diego this week and hope to see more of this at Pecto Park on the 14th!

[dominicmccrimmon]

Remember covering the 1999 World solar challenge and the big presence of BP solar. Ten years later BP solar was gone and around that time, the proliferation of imported solar products stopped, and withing two years, solar panels and controlers all but diasapeared from the store shelves in Canada. What happened?

[suunraze]

Somehow the numbers arent adding up for me. If the vehicle can travel 1, 000km (or better) on a 37.5kWh charge, that's at least 27km/kWh. This sounds fairly realistic, considering Aptera claims around 16km/kWh.

With 1.2kW of solar, assuming around 4 kWh/m2 daily POA irradiation, that would be well over 100km of daily solar range (for reference, Aptera claims 60). Why then did the engineer claim only 26km of daily solar range?

Edit: maybe the engineer meant 26km per hour of full sunlight! This would make sense. Or that you could drive 26kph steady state during full sun

[Sailorman]

Looks like a great car.
I hope more realistic cars like Sono Motors Sion will hit the road soon.
Lightyear is too expensive, and the car in the video and Aptera a bit extreme.

[romad]

This could be Australia's Aptera. However, I don't know if the Australian standards for 2 & 3 wheel vehicles are as different from those for 4 wheel vehicles as they are in these United States. The 4 wheel standards have negative impact on EV efficiency that the 2 & 3 wheel standards don't. Oh, as an aside, when she seemed to talk in glowing terms about mainland China being "leaders" due to its government, I got the impression she isn't aware that the government there is a totalitarian communist dictatorship. It just orders something be done and to hell about the people's desires. In Australia, she can disagree and protest government decisions; doing the same in Red China she would be arrested, imprisoned and possibly even executed.

[namenotshown]

38kwh battery with 1200watts solar gave 1, 000km over 12 hrs( looked overcast on that day so solar probably didn't add much, also track was quite hilly not flat)
Thats 621 miles is the world record. 3, 800whr/621miles gives 6.2wh/mile.
So thats a measured real world result verified. Aptera is claiming 10wh/mile, lets see them do a 12hr run and see how far they actually get. I dont think they would last 12hrs firstly, secondly the 10wh/mile is theoretical not tested in real world.
Aptera is claiming worlds most efficient solar vehicle and are taking money from people who want to buy one, but they never produce them, lets see them do a real world test with guiness world record there to be unbiased assessors. They wont do it cause they know the real world results will be either a break down or much lower distance than they are telling people. Why do you think they have never done one of these tests?

[aaron_knight]

They should have studied the Aptera, it's already getting better results and goes into production next year.

[AMPProf]

Soo.. Achieving a faster more efficient photonic exchange rate! Hopefully we change the test cause.. My booty kinda yahh

[AM-bwhv]

Aptera is leading the way in solar cars. Listening to her describe the car makes think they are all idiots.