Stanford Solar Car today gave a tour to 20 students from Joseph George Middle School in San Jose. These students are working on their own mini solar cars through the Citizen Schools program! Citizen Schools seeks to extend the learning day with unique hands-on learning experiences called apprenticeships. Good luck …
Big thanks to CS Hyde Company for its continued support of our solar car team! CS Hyde has been a valuable Friends-level Sponsor since 2012, and we depend on their FEP Optically Clear Tape to help fasten our fairings to the vehicle in the extreme conditions of the Australian Outback. In …
Thanks to CoilCraft for joining us as a new Friends-level Sponsor! In their own words: As the most trusted name in RF & power magnetics, Coilcraft is committed to providing ECE students with a wide variety of resources to support their studies. In addition to free RF and power inductor samples, …
Welcome to the Farm, Class of 2018 & transfers! And welcome back to all of our classmates! The Stanford Solar Car Project is in the midst of our year and a half long design cycle, as we’re preparing to build a car to race in the 2015 World Solar Challenge. We’re …
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A shout-out to Solar Team Eindhoven (STE) from the Netherlands and the CalSol – UC Berkeley Solar Vehicle Team for visiting us this past Thursday, September 18. We had so much fun meeting everybody and talking about our cars! Thanks Team Eindhoven for bringing Stella all the way from the Netherlands, …
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On Thursday, August 21st, our team welcomed President Alejandro Toledo of Peru, his wife Ms. Eliane Karp and advisors, Dr. Richard Swanson, founder of SunPower, and a few other guests to our shop in an historic outreach opportunity made possible by Labiba of Stanford’s KZSU radio station. This unique KZSU …
On Saturday, the team said goodbye to the Luminos molds. The molds came out of a generous sponsorship from Christensen Fiberglass Tooling. After receiving the molds in December 2012 and using them for composite layups, the team built Luminos, which placed 4th at the 2013 World Solar Challenge. Since then, Oregon High School Solar …
Thanks go out to CARiD and CashforCarsSanDiego, our team’s newest Friends-level sponsors. Check them out at our sponsors page! CARiD.com is an e-commerce retailer of auto parts and accessories catering to all types of automotive enthusiasts. Located in Cranbury, New Jersey, CARiD.com offers more than 2 million products from 700 …
This last spring quarter, SSCP held its first ever Open Garage Talk at the Volkswagen Automotive Innovation Lab, entitled “Racing Through the Outback (Without Stopping for Gas)” on May 8th. Sponsors, faculty, friends, and others joined Solar Car team members in a celebration of the team’s 4th place finish at …
Three weeks ago on June 5th, the organizing committee released the rules for the 2015 World Solar Challenge. The World Solar Challenge, for anyone new to solar racing, is the arguably the world’s leading solar car race, in which teams compete in a 3,000 km journey across the Australian outback …
May was a busy month for the team in terms of outreach and team events. Only 2 days after our team’s first Open Garage Talk, our Business & Logistics Lead, Rachel Abril, presented on behalf of Stanford Solar Car at TEDxStanford 2014. This year’s event was entitled “Above and Beyond,” and …
On May 19, SSCP visited our sponsors STMicroelectronics with Luminos, our 2013 car. STMicroelectronics is one of the world’s largest semiconductor companies, and supplied our team with STM32 microcontrollers for use in Luminos. These chips control many of the car’s electrical systems, from headlights to battery management. We brought Luminos …
