While the world is experiencing a transition to electric-powered cars, the Northwestern University Solar Car Team, known as NUsolar, is making a vehicle that can gather electricity as well. The group ...

Solar-powered cars face significant challenges due to limited space for solar panels and high energy requirements for driving. Some companies, like Lightyear, are developing solar EVs but face ...

The vehicle’s carbon fiber-reinforced polymer (CFRP) body at the assembly stage in Aptera’s facility. The body in carbon (BinC) structural approach uses carbon fiber sheet molding compound (CF-SMC) ...

The Solar Car Challenge will race into San Angelo this summer. It's the top project-based STEM initiative helping spark high-school students' interest in science, engineering and alternative energy, ...

The eight-day Electrek American Solar Challenge 2024 created three new champion solar car teams with the student-run University of Michigan team coming in first, followed by Canada’s École de ...

AIKO and the Brunel Solar team, known for its engineering expertise in solar car racing, have announced a strategic partnership for the 2024 Sasol Solar Challenge, a collaboration bringing together ...

Solar car teams from Canada outperformed in two categories of the latest Electrek American Solar Challenge. The student team from Polytechnique Montréal won first in the multiple occupant vehicle ...

More than 60 teams from 13 middle schools attended Platte River Power Authority’s sixth annual NoCo Time Trials on May 3 with more than 350 people in attendance for the solar and battery car races.

KALAMAZOO, Mich. — A sun-powered car built entirely by college students is getting ready to hit the road for an annual cross-country race. The Western Michigan University Sunseeker Solar Car Project ...