Live Progress: World Solar Challenge 2011

Live Progress

A: Race start (Darwin), B: Current location, C: Race finish (Adelaide)

CUER recently competed in the World Solar Challenge 2011, a 3000km race through the Australian Outback, from Darwin to Adelaide.

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It is Your support that allows us to continue with our outreach events, provide masters projects and apprenticeships for engineering undergraduates and compete in the most challenging events across the world.

Thanks entirely to our corporate sponsors and the kind donations of individuals, no matter how large or small, through our Friends of CUER scheme, CUER is able to innovate, explore and educate. We are one of the few teams to have ever represented the UK on the World stage and hope to continue doing so.

We are currently embarking upon the 2011 World Solar Challenge, but are still short of the funds we require to complete our challenge successfully. Please do consider donating to the team.

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  • If you want to win @wsolarchallenge, reliability is key! @millbrook_co_uk #testingsession2
    http://t.co/fnzHEVT7na
    11 Jun 2013 19:34
  • Our Lucy Osbourne write this weeks blog, #ExperienceisEverything #WomeninEngineering @Cambridge_Eng
    http://t.co/dXP7sOvyv7
    8 Jun 2013 18:19
  • #Gloriousweather #milestraight #testing #lotsofdata #handlesnicely @millbrook_co_uk
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    5 Jun 2013 18:50
  • Good luck to all the first and second year engineers doing their exams this week!
    3 Jun 2013 22:16
  • "She handles quite nicely, easy to drive and very nimble like a go-kart.." #TonyPurnell
    2 Jun 2013 08:48

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  • Looking ahead to WSC 2013

    Now in race year, we want to take a quick look at the World Solar Challenge itself.  The WSC is a biennial race that first took place in 1987. Since then, the reach of the race has grown, and the 2011 instalment saw 37 teams compete from 20 countries – almost twice as many countries as were represented in the 2005 race. In the same period, solar cell technology and lightweight manufacturing technologies, including the use of carbon fibre, have greatly advanced. To ensure that the competition continues to present opportunities for innovation and achievement, the WSC has improved its regulations governing race vehicles.

    This year there were some significant changes to the regulations governing the most competitive class of solar vehicles, the Challenger class. The primary change was a move to four wheels, an important one given the recent domination of three-wheeled designs. Not since 1996 when the Honda Dream took the top spot has a team won this class with a four-wheeled vehicle. Secondly, the regulations governing the driver’s head space and visibility have been tightened. The new quantitative restrictions bring them up to the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe’s transport guidelines and the Australian Government National …
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