05/09/2013

Down under to top the Solar Challenge

Of course Solar Team Eindhoven wants to win the World Solar Challenge that kicks off on 6 October. “But that doesn’t mean the race will have been a failure if we don’t.” More than anything the team wants to get ‘Stella’ across the finish line in one piece after a three-thousand-kilometer trip. And that’s not easy at all: in 2011, not even one in five teams finished the race through the Australian outback.

by Monique van de Ven

Solar Team Eindhoven (STE) doesn’t lack ambition and drive, that’s for sure. ‘Developing the car of the future’, they set as their ambitious goal at the official start in October 2012.

The initial ideas came to Mechanical Engineering students Lex Hoefsloot and Roy Cobbenhagen in the early spring of 2012. They were finalizing their bachelor’s theses at the time and wanted to create a solar-powered family car than was more practical and more comfortable than the flat ‘wings on wheels’ that had been dominating the World Solar Challenge since the first edition back in 1987.

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Student
09/10/2013

Tough luck for Stella, but it’s ok

During today’s fourth heat, Solar Team Eindhoven (STE) suffered a minor setback for the first time during the World Solar Challenge. Stella had to pull over for a new tire, and the team had to fix a cable. It was partly due to this delay that the Eindhoven solar car finished behind direct competition Germany and Australia. But because Stella raced with four passengers, STE is still the best team in the virtual overall ranking.

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Student
07/10/2013

Solar team Eindhoven on schedule in Australia

During the first two days of the 2013 World Solar Challenge, solar-powered family car Stella created by TU/e was the fastest car in the Cruiser category. After setting the fastest time in the first run on Sunday, yesterday Stella had only the German team from Bochum to fear, which finished just behind them. So far, the family cars have traveled 988 kilometers of the three-thousand-kilometer track from Darwin to Adelaide.

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Student Campus
24/09/2013

TU/e ready for World Solar Challenge

As far as software and strategy goes, they could still do a bit better, but other than that Solar Team Eindhoven and Stella are ready. The TU/e students and their self-made solar-powered family car have been in Australia for a few weeks now. The World Solar Challenge will start on October 6.

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Campus Student Research
04/07/2013

Student team unveils world’s first solar-powered family car

The Solar Team Eindhoven (STE) of Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) presented the world’s first solar-powered family car today. ‘Stella’ is the first ‘energy-positive car’ with room for four people, a trunk, intuitive steering and a range of 600 kilometers. This is the car being entered by the student team in the Cruiser class of the World Solar Challenge that starts in Australia in October 2013.

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Student Research
02/07/2013

Solar family car TU/e team presented on Thursday

The solar family car developed by TU/e’s Solar Team Eindhoven will be presented in the market hall of MetaForum this Thursday, July 4.

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Student Campus
02/10/2012

TU/e students to build solar family car

Over twenty students from various departments will be working on a family car that runs on solar energy partly. Solar Team Eindhoven (STU) wants to use the car for the World Solar Challenge held in the Australian outback in October 2013.

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