World Bioenergy + World Solar Challenge = True
The World Solar Challenge is an open international competition that aims to promote the development of renewable energy. The mission is to construct and build a vehicle that is run solely by solar energy and that can manage to drive some 3,000 km through Australia from Darwin to Adelaide in shortest possible time. Elmia and World Bioenergy have decided to sponsor the JU Solar Team in its mission to develop a sun driven vehicle to take part in the world championship for solar cars, World Solar Challenge 2013.
“Renewable energy comes in many forms, and they are all worth promoting. This is the first ever Swedish team to take part in this biennially occurring competition, and the expectations are high,” says Jakob Hirsmark, product manager of World Bioenergy.
The team of 24 engineers from Jönköping University is already backed up by partners and sponsors such as Öhlins Racing (suspension), Oxeon Textreme (Formula 1 carbon fibre), Prototal (prototype production) SKF, Elmia and Volvo. More partners and sponsors are in pipeline, which is good news since the estimated cost for constructing a winning vehicle with an average speed of at least 100 km/h is around SEK 2.5 million.
“Up to four drivers will take turn to drive eight hours per day for about a week to reach the goal. These cars usually average almost 100 km/h with a top speed of 150 km/h. We have plans of test driving in Spain to get optimal sun conditions, which is hard to get in Sweden,” says Tanja Lundberg, project manager strategy and PR of JU Solar Team.
Tanja Lundberg and Sofia Wånge from JU Solar Team present one of the small scale models of the solar car that will be developed by the 24 members of the team. Approximately six square meters of solar panels will cover the car that will reach an estimated 150 km/h in the bright Australian sunligt. Photo: Peter Gustafsson/Jnytt.se
The winner among the 44 competing vehicles from 20 countries in 2011 was the “Tokai Challenger” from Tokai University in Japan, which held an average speed of 91.54 km/h. It was followed by “Nuna 6” from Nuon Solar Team in the Netherlands (88.60 km/h) and “Quantum” from University of Michigan in the USA (84.33 km/h).
Let’s keep our fingers crossed for a successful event for the JU Solar team!
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