What is CUER?

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Since the World Solar Challenge in October 2019 where we competed with Helia (our solar EV), our team has been busy working on our cars.

Helia has competed in the 2019 World Solar Challenge in Australia, visited tracks worldwide and gained the attention of news outlets across continents. Helia has undergone a significant upgrade with a complete rewiring, new suspension design and all-new batteries built. We are also working on our next solar car, SC7. This car will be single occupancy, competing in the competitive challenger class, racing for top speeds and maximum efficiency.

Mission and Vision

CUER is a student-led engineering project at the Cambridge University Engineering Department and top University Solar Car team in the UK. Our aim is to serve as a learning platform for students to develop real world engineering skills.

We aim to benefit the community and the next generations through outreach with local schools and organisations and developing the infrastructure and ideas for a carbon negative future. We are leveraging the combined knowledge and expertise of CUER, our alumni, our sponsors and the University of Cambridge to continue to develop and build the best vehicles the world has seen.

  • I am honored to be part of the CUER project, working with the brightest academic minds, an enthusiastic engineering team who are pushing the boundaries across many disciplines, energy, aerodynamics, composite materials, vehicle dynamics and safety cell structures to name a few. Helia will be a well-engineered leading edge design that will take on the best competitors in the world in the toughest solar car test, 3000km of Australian outback.

    John L.Sullivan, Certifying Engineer CUER 2018-2019, Former Technical Director Ford Motor Company and Tata

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  • CUER is making a bold statement in taking up the challenge of designing and building a solar-powered vehicle. With its cross-disciplinary expertise, Cambridge University Engineering Department is ideally placed to support this multi- faceted project. We wish the CUER team every success.

    Dr Claire Barlow, Deputy Head of Department, Cambridge University Department of Engineering

  • I’ve been working with CUER for 5 years now. They have all been impressive, innovative and brilliant engineers. I’m supporting them because with the right backing I’m convinced they can be world beating.

    David Cleevely, CBE FREng FIET, Chairman of the Raspberry Pi Foundation and Raspberry Pi (Trading) Ltd.

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Work has been fruitful, Helia is almost in a running state and work is underway on SC7.

Any support would be greatly, greatly appreciated.

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