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  • National Instruments Sponsors SSCP Test Equipment

    National Instruments is a producer of automated test equipment and virtual instrumentation software. Since 1976, National Instruments has equipped engineers and scientists with tools that accelerate productivity, innovation, and discovery. NI’s graphical system design approach provides an integrated software and hardware platform that simplifies development of any system that needs measurement and control. Our team will be taking advantage of NI’s electronics…

  • Quanta Labs Sponsors SSCP Electronics Testing

    This cycle one of the team’s goals is to create a vehicle that is much more reliable than our past cars. For over 20 years, Quanta Laboratories have supported the product testing requirements of the nation’s computer, fiber optics, telecommunications, medical, food, aerospace/defense, and other high-tech electronic industries. Quanta Laboratories is the largest and most experienced…

  • Cytec Donates SurfaceMaster to the Solar Car Project

    Cytec is one of the Stanford Solar Car Projects longtime sponsors. Cytec Industries Inc. is a global specialty chemicals and materials company focused on developing, manufacturing and selling value-added products. Our products serve a diverse range of end markets including aerospace, adhesives, automotive and industrial coatings, inks, mining and plastics. Cytec provides SurfaceMaster for our team…

  • AlphaWire Donates Wire for the New Car

    AlphaWire: AlphaWire has engineered wire and cables that excel in taming tough applications. From the harsh environment of a factory floor, to critical controls on an offshore oil rig, cables from AlphaWire are working reliably day-in and day-out. Our team will be using our sweet new AlphaWire single conductor and multiconductor cable all over our car.…

  • Winter Quarter New Friends Level Sponsors

    Henkel: This year Henkel has sponsored our team with a donation of Hysol glue and Freekote mold sealant. Henkel operates worldwide with leading brands and technologies in three business areas: Laundry & Home Care, Beauty Care and Adhesive Technologies. Italix: Italix is a precision chemical etching shop in Santa Clara. They  delivered the tabs that we’ll need…

  • Video from the Bottom Shell Layup

      Thanks to Matthew for putting the footage together!

  • New Youtube Videos

    Guillermo put together two new videos from the first part of our winter break layups. The footage includes the first bit of our fairings layup, our door layup, and our topshell layup.  

  • Panasonic NCR18650B Cells

    Our friends at SolarCarSupply.com are now offering Panasonic’s 3.4Ah Li-Ion 18650 cells. They were kind enough to send us a few cells to run tests on so we could verify that they are in fact real Panasonic cells – we used a Keithley 2430 SourceMeter to run charge/discharge curves on the cells. The cells look…

  • Winter Break Update 5

    Yesterday was our last day of work at VAIL before the final members of our team fly or drive home for the winter holidays. We had a solid 25+ hours at the shop with all hands on deck to manufacture our carbon fiber top shell. We started the day with sealing our molds with Freekote and trimming…

  • Winter Break Update Four

    We finished the door in record time. Wyles and Michael went to Livermore to get some new vacuum bagging materials. Stretchlon may not actually be the new hotness, but our slick new vacuum gauge and quick release lines are our favorite new toys of the day. We have the replacement door in the oven, and…

  • Winter Break Update 3

    We pulled our door out of the oven this morning. Using foaming adhesive in the tight corners worked great, but we had an unfortunate vacuum failure during the bake. The vacuum loss didn’t propagate to our vacuum gauge, so we didn’t realize that there was a failure until it was too late. The door is still valuable…

  • Winter Break Update Day 2

    Today we finished up bagging the fairings and we got them in the oven. Once we got the mold up to temperature and pulled them out the fairings popped out relatively easily. We were using epoxy with fairing filler bubbles in the rear edge of our fairings during the layup. The fairing trailing edges came…

  • TE Connectivity Sponsors Stanford Solar Car

    TE Hybrid & Electric Mobility Solutions has provided our team with a number of high-voltage connectors for our battery pack and solar array. Their waterproof, touch-proof connectors will increase thesafety and reliability of our high voltage bus. TE Electronics is a global firm that designs and manufactures connectors and many other products. We have used…

  • Click Bond Sponsors Stanford Solar Car

    Click Bond will be providing our composites attachment hardware for our upcoming solar vehicle! Click Bond is a family owned supplier of very easy to use adhesive studs, adhesive grommets, zip tie holders, and other hardware for composites. We’ll be using their products to attach all of our suspension, roll cage, electronics, door, and wires…

  • Winter Break Update Day 1

    Finals are over! Finals are over! Finals are over! While most of the campus has gone home for the break by now, the Stanford Solar Car Project is sticking around Palo Alto for an extra week of non-stop solar car excitement. This morning we had a meeting with a bunch of our team alumni. They…

  • Our Molds Arrived Today

    A delivery truck arrived early this morning with a present for the team right in time for the holidays. Our team now has five beautiful mold and plug pieces from Christensen Fiberglass Tooling in house ready for layups starting in one week. Check out the images below and keep an eye on our Facebook, Twitter,…

  • Amber Composites Materials Arrive

    More supplies are rolling in and we received the Fire Marshall’s approval for our oven today.

  • Finished Oven

    The mech team put the finishing touches on the oven last night. We’ll have the Fire Marshall’s inspection today and we should be able to start layups when our molds arrive in a couple of weeks!

  • Center for Automotive Research at Stanford, Stanford School of Engineering, and Stanford ASSU Expand Support for the SSCP

    The Stanford School of Engineering has been at the forefront of innovation for nearly a century, creating pivotal technologies that have transformed the worlds of information technology, communications, medicine, energy, business and beyond. The faculty, students and alumni of Stanford Engineering have established thousands of companies and laid the technological and business foundations for Silicon…

  • Fall Quarter SSCP Progress Report

    It’s been a busy Fall Quarter here at the Stanford Solar Car Project. With just a little under a year left before the 2013 World Solar Challenge, our shop here at the Automotive Innovation Lab is bustling with activity as we work on the design for our brand-new WSC entry. What follows is a recap…

  • Sunpower Continues Support for SSCP Solar Array

    We are very pleased to announce that the SunPower Corporation has continued their Platinum Level support for our team with ultra-high efficiency silicon solar cells! These cells, for which our aerobody was specifically designed, will be the cornerstone of the performance of our upcoming new solar cars. SunPower is the industry leader in the high-efficiency solar market,…

  • Christensen Fiberglass Tooling Sponsors SSCP Molds

    Christensen Fiberglass Tooling has extended our team a generous Gold Tier sponsorship for our group’s new fiberglass composite molds. Over the last decade our team has seen the best and the worst of composite tooling manufacturers. Still, Christensen Fiberglass Tooling has wowed our group with their incredible service and support. This year, our team decided to allocate…

  • STMicroelectronics Expands Support

    Our team is excited to announce that STMicroelectronics has expanded their 2012 support for our team moving STM into our Silver level tier. STM has been a longtime supporter for our team providing our project with free development boards, as well as chips from their excellent STM32 line which go on every board in the car. Now, STM has expanded…

  • M.C. Gill Corporation Sponsors the Stanford Solar Car Project

    Our team is happy to announce a new Bronze tier sponsorship from M.C. Gill Corp. The vast majority of high performance composite products from MC Gill Corp serve the commercial aircraft and aerospace industries. They are well known for cargo liner used in air freighters and baggage compartments. Their honeycomb products have a wide range of…