The World's Fastest Solar Race Cars
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- čas přidán 13. 07. 2023
- These crazy looking things are solar-powered race cars. They’re a part of a big global competition where student teams from around the world compete in a grueling 2,000 km race across the Australian Outback. It's like the Formula 1 of solar cars. Here's why it matters...
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Now THIS is podracing!
I wish I thought of that sooner.
Is that first video of them spinning? Thats a cool trick!
I knew someone had to!! Best comment ever!
The World Solar Challenge from Darwin to Adelaide ist actually 3000 km long.
I recommend the CZcams documentary with Derek from Veritasium about the last race👍
I'm already following this intelligent human
i was actually on my universitys solar car team for a little bit. very cool experience and i learned a lot about practical design and engineering
It's crazy how solar is enough to power a car now, I know it's not a full car but if its enough to get through the desert, it's enough to get you through the city
See Sono Sion, Lightyear 0, Aptera among others.
These races have been going since the 80s. I'm sure they're faster and more robust now, but solar panels have been able to power cars like this for a long time.
As long as it continues to be sunny.
Storage has always been the primary limiting factor for solar. We just don't have the resources to create batteries to store enough power for the world to use in a day.
@@SeraphsWitness It doesn't need to be sunny, just daytime. Cloudy weather or precipitation short of snow still have solar panels operating at pretty close to their full capacity.
That said, you're right overall that storage is really the key issue and biggest sticking point right now (and has been for a while).
There are more than enough resources to make sufficient storage, the problem is getting them from the ground and into service at a cost palatable to government when half the government thinks coal is a better option.
(And if private industry was ever going to do it they would've a long time ago).
@@TonkarzOfSolSystem All very pie in the sky thinking. Government has invested in solar, to no avail. And batteries have a very short shelf life and reduced capacity over time. I have solar panels on my house, I'm not against solar. But the idea that it can run the world is just not true. Germany has been pushing it for decades and hasn't even come close.
Like it or not, fossil fuels are the cheapest and most efficient tool we have. Since the US seems so keen on refusing to open more nuclear plants.
Ohhhh I miss UNSW. Our solar baby was amazing!
Woooo glad to meet an alumni!
Still amazing 🏎️
my uni has that team for this, maybe i should join it since it got Cleo's attention
Don't be a simp bro
Where do you go?
@@josecamacho5522She's worth it, smart, good looking, seems nice, and prolly rich. I would shoot my shot if I didn't have a gf
_Do it because you'll learn something and be a more educated, experienced and confident graduate... not because she liked it!_
@@IhabFahmywhy do you talk in italic
Not the Deloitte sponsorship 😢
On another note, you were the best camp counselor! Here's to your continued success!
-- Terry Garcia
Glad I’m not the only one who noticed. So weird seeing an accounting firm sponsoring racecars
For an overview, the movie "Race the Sun" 1996 shows the early days.
"Innovation doesn't have to come from professionals" is a funny way to say inventors don't need to be paid.
I worked at Lightyear as a graduation project and they have their roots from this race. Pretty cool.
Exploded “1%->2%”
In the same race a company emerged called the lightyear they won the solar car racing for 3 consecutive years which produces most efficient solar car.
I raced across the outback as a student.
But then my mom said stop running in the restaurant.
Go watch the movie RACE THE SUN!
It's basically this race during the 90's
It was inspirational to see as a kid
My older brother did this in 2011, it was the sasol solar car challenge. UKZN represent
I see these every year zooming down the road.
Yes, and the Dutch University in Delft has the most wins, 7 times. solarPOWERRRR💪🏼
Hell yeah delft represent
Good, now we need to make this into a huge global event cause fun competition is a nice way to drive innovation.
They are such cool looking things
Next time they will make solar aeroplane 🛫
that's a different category, this category is just for cars.
I did it in high school and it sucked for me: they didn't teach me or explain anything and since I was only in the 1st engineering class I didn't understand what was going on. I was forced to just clean and do random chores lol
Yeah student teams experiences can be highly variable and, especially when you're starting out, can be highly dependent on who you're working under and with. I've had good and bad experiences as a beginner myself. But by the end of university I had been a team lead for one team, and the team captain for another team. So, if you're still in university I'd say don't let a few experiences of bad team dynamics turn you away from teams in general. They can be amazing, very rewarding, you can learn a ton and make some very close friends. Would highly recommend trying to find a team with people you vibe with and hits on something that interests you before you make up your mind!
@@jeffevio I definitely agree, it just wasn't a productive group in terms of learning. I'm not detered from doing things like that in the future thankfully
Where are the proud TUd students at?
There's a science educational center near here that has had one of these hanging from the ceiling on display for as long as I can remember.
WHOOO! NOW tell everybody a solar car has to be a tank! "The tech is still in research." Mud racing research!
It's really awesome to see how the cars started and where the tech is now!
It was a good short but it appears to me no one is working on making the solar panels better, they are just engineers
I need a whole video with a breakdown about this event. This looks so interesting. I need to know more about the event, about the specific vehicles, their challenges and how they overcome these challenges.
A few years back there was a whole miniseries on it, called 'Light Speed.' It was great.
I was a part of my university's solar car team for a few years as a design engineer and I, too, would very much also love to see a breakdown by Cleo! In the meantime though there's a couple of books that are common to read that talk about solar car challenges that solar cars face. One that I remember is "The Winning Solar Car: A Design Guide for Solar Race Car Teams by Douglas R. Carroll". I should note that it's a couple decades old now and many teams, especially the more cutting edge solar car teams, are tackling newer challenges. Also many of the university solar teams that compete in the World Solar Challenge and Formula Sun Grand Prix have websites that have a good deal of information on what they're working on.
Race the Sun - it's a movie from the 90s about this very race.
They already do have a F1 solar car racing it’s called Formula E. Pretty cool to watch actually.
I just seen these cars on 62/180 in between El Paso, Tx and Carlsbad. I remembered seeing them when I was in elementary.
This is legit. I live in the heart of aus and these solar cars goes through my town.
Anyone here seen race the sun? Dope ass movie.
When I worked at a high-school we got involved in Electrathon American. Sort of similar but not solar powered. Races usually lasted an hour or until.everyones batteries ran out haha. It was pretty fun though!
This thing looks like a cartoon character
i remember seeing this when i watched a short film during my stay at the boston science museum!
maybe eventually we will have AI races, with electric powered cars controlled by AI
we already kind of have that. There is a competition where elctric formula 1type car student teams race in both driver and driverless category
To be the Formula S, where the dropouts from Formula E race
Correction: It's a 3000km race not 2000km
You are so cool Cleo! Thank you for the videos
POV a large cloud comes
I love the split leaf philodendron!!
Thx for posting you keep me updated on what's going on currently
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Imagine if it rains 💀
Its in the Australian outback lol it never rains
Edison motors should enter their truck train in this
They've done this for DECADES as well! Movies have been made about it. So cool.
Reminds me of that regular show episode
Just stumbled across your channel, love it.
“Its like Formula 1 for students!”
Nope, ‘Formula Student’ is Formula 1 for students.
In Formula Student they're not even racing against each other...
Hey, your enthusiasm and passion for cool and innovative science is infectious amazing job!
I work at a solar company close to one of these teams, and they had their car parked by the entrance earliest this week. Was cool to see, and now I see why it was there, the race is about to happen?
Not the first thing I noticed being the Michigan car
The first time I saw this contest on TV I was in elementary school. Now I am a father of a teenager. The solar powered vehicles used in the contest I saw in my childhood looked exactly the same as we see today. They made zero progress in the past 30 years 😢
They are absolutely not comparable to the cars of your childhood. Around 15 years ago the solar cars were capable to drive the whole race distance at the speed limit of the public roads they're using. That made it difficult for support vehicles to catch up and it was also not in the spirit of the event that the results depended on traffic. So they had to slow down the cars and now every Season they get new regulations to make them safer and slower. The cars from 30 years ago had like 8 m² solar cells. Some cars in this clip have only 2.6 m².
She keeps getting prettier day-by-day
She wields Thor's hammer everyday during her combat training. Little by little its magical powers infuse into her, slowly making her immortal
We dutchies dont just dominate actual f1 but also this solar race with our brilliant TU Delft students winning this race almost every year consecutively. People talk about going to MIT or Stanford for engineering but never about TU Delft which is an absolutely remarkable University and is dare I say atleast as good as MIT but cheaper because of large government subsidies.
I used to live in one of the towns along the highway that the cars go on, and when they were in town, they would come to my school and we'd get to go in the cars and they'd drive them around the field.
Those look SO COOL!
Cool that you’re talking about these. My high school has a solar car team (RAHS Green Energy Team). They don’t race around Australia, but they do race in Texas, and currently they’re the national champions, and their tech is on the level of some university teams! A whole lot of the designs in the video are very similar to their past and current designs. Check them out!
Racing in AUSTRALIA? man i hope they have temperature control for the pilot.
They put one of those cars in our campus entrance after belgium won the race one year
I went to the workshop in Western Sydney Uni, who were competing in this, so cool!
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Reminds me of a college whose graduate class made an awesome looking sports car that got 50mpg & had equivalent of 200hp based on mixing various concepts like a small engine but it revs up while at a red light & stores energy in a compression tank for fast acceleration.
Everything was off the shelf parts & the professor was on the local news hoping one of the big 3 manufacturers would contact them to copy thier ideas.
Of course it was never heard from again.
I remember something similar when I was a kid.
But the students are the professionals in the lab
Cheering on Blue Sky Solar from UofT!!
I ve watched the series but damn they have a large footprint even tho its a solar race car . With every race car theres 11 or more normal gas cars going behind them helping them, the race cars use already charged batteries so its not fully solar. Cars explode etc. So they leave behind quite a big carbon footprint even tho they are just "solar"
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The carbon they’re emitting is negligible compared to even national levels in some countries he’ll even most towns have more carbon emissions then this race
I just want to be the person driving it😂 awesome tech though, I'm glad solar is continuing to get better and less expensive.
Bruh that's just F Zero
There was a movie about this in the 90’s. Race the Sun with Halle Berry.
My alma mater competes in this race every year. It’s a pretty cool thing for students.
eyyyy we were part of this!!! our school is Dlsu and weve been competing for a while!! will be joining that org next term!
Did that car seriously have the Deloitte logo? An accounting firm is sponsoring racecars?
Shes already on a yacht
Love your videos , keep it up Clea :)
omg yesss some of my college friends did this! I always wondered why they were gone for a full month in October until I realized that's when they hold the race in Australia lol.
Unless they had a high impact idea that industry hasn't had, this is a toy problem.
At best it's experience for junior engineers.
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I hope you can share some of your college adventures with us!
Go Netherlands.
Yeah no, I expected it to be Australia. But from Darwin to South Australia? Jesus that’s a long track.
The 2000 km said in the Video is incorrect. Actually it's 3000km :D
The Dutch often win. Probably because we don't have a lot of sunlight here and we need the efficiency 😶🌫️
ISRO Chandrayaan launch cover it plzzzzzz...
It's such a unforgiving race. You make something so delicately balanced, so light weight to reduce the amount of electricity draw needed to move the car, and the damn thing can conk out on you before you even leave the starting line, or maybe get hit by a car because it's done on public roads.
Try solar on a full size SUV… true solar power can move a casket for hundreds of miles if the idea just get to B from A.
good stuff... I am following you ❤
Note: plants are solar powered. Chetahs run on hydrocarbons. Which is faster?
Fastest car at the qualifying for the last competition was 144 km/h😅
What if heavy clouds roll in and stay?
Put air conditioning in it and i'm sold
Right now innovation comes a lot from lithium mined in poor countries
Hey it’s either that or coal mined from poor countries
Yay lithium mines!!! So cool!
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Love your content! ❤
I follow this cool competition
This absolutely isn't F1 for solar cars 😂
This is the point of F1 cars aswell.
Great news solar power is the future!
Solar and wind is a supplement not a replacement. Nuclear is more environmentally friendly.
Are you suggesting you want to build a nuclear powered car to win this race? I suggest you read the rulebook before you start spending money.