http://www.heraldsun.com.au/technology/team-of-students-from-unsw-close-to-creating-australias-first-road-legal-solar-sports-car/story-fnjwq0cn-1227337870233 Team of students from UNSW close to creating Australia’s first road legal solar sports car MATTHEW DUNN, news.com.au May 05, 2015
[images http://resources0.news.com.au/images/2015/05/05/1227337/870408-684f88fe-f2e2-11e4-9134-cf9443e7fd03.jpg SunSwift has already broken a world record, now for the new challenge http://resources3.news.com.au/images/2015/05/05/1227337/870179-42f09fcc-f2e1-11e4-9134-cf9443e7fd03.jpg Currently the battery pack and solar panels mean the car can reach distances of 800km from a single charge http://resources3.news.com.au/images/2015/05/05/1227337/870207-d53dfe0c-f2e0-11e4-9134-cf9443e7fd03.jpg An artist impression of how the road legal vehicle would look video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLoQ_-KLwH4 eVe - Australia's First Road Legal Solar Car UNSWSunswift Nov 30, 2014 MAKE A PLEDGE AT http://www.pozible.com/project/188925 and receive some awesome rewards. Every little helps! ] AN ambitious team of undergraduate students from the University of New South Wales are on the brink of creating the Southern Hemisphere’s first road legal solar sports car. Having built and raced five generations of solar sports cars, SunSwift’s latest prototype eVe holds the world record for the fastest electric vehicle over a distance of 500 kilometres on a single battery charge. Now, the team are taking on the gruelling task of redesigning and rebuilding almost every aspect of the vehicle to make it street legal. Business Manager Rob Ireland said the challenge was in creating a solar powered vehicle that met the Australian Design Rules. “To be able to register the car for the road, we need to include side impact protection, windscreen wipers, headlights and a number of other components,” he told news.com.au. “Making these changes will add weight to the vehicle, so its energy system will also need an upgrade.” Mr Ireland said the team wanted to make the vehicle equally as practical, stylish and functional as a regular car. “To make the vehicle a commercially viable product and not just a science experiment, we need to offer the luxuries found in a petrol powered car,” he said. “We want a two-seat car that can travel long distances at very high speeds without losing the comfort.” As Sunswift is an entirely student-led, not-for-profit organisation, the team rely on donations and sponsorships to continue operating. “Other teams working on similar projects have multi-million dollar budgets and we don’t receive anything close to that,” he said. “To think we are just some Aussie battlers fighting against the odds and competing on the world stage is pretty rewarding.” SunSwift hope to have the car finished by July. [© News Corp 2015] http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/lifestyle/motoring/solar-good-australian-students-aim-5644272 Solar so good as Australian students aim to get sun-powered car street-legal 6 May 2015 By Phil Lanning [image http://i1.dailyrecord.co.uk/incoming/article5644258.ece/ALTERNATES/s615/Sunswift.jpg Sunswift eVe solar car ] A student team from Australia's University of New South Wales are hoping to make striking race car Sunswift eVe ready for roads FED UP with hearing about diesel emissions and rising fuel costs? Well this sensational vehicle ditches the lot because it is SOLAR-POWERED. A student team from Australia's University of New South Wales are hoping to make the race car Sunswift eVe street-legal by July. It has already smashed international speed records as authenticated by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile – the governing body for motorsports – as the fastest electric car over 500km on a single charge. Now they have to make it road-legal by changing the suspension, windscreen and headlights – but need more funding of around £50,000. The team's business manager Rob Ireland admitted: “The aim of the record was to prove that electric cars can travel very long distances at high speeds. "We've proven the car can do all these cool things, but can it be commercial? Can anybody drive this car everyday to work? That's the question.” I've actually driven a solar-powered car built by UK students on Ford's proving ground in Dunton, Essex – it was the most uncomfortable vehicle I've driven in my life. But clearly technology is advancing. There's a catch – there always is. The price of this solar concept is £250,000 – although that price would drop dramatically if mass produced. The other problem is that solar-power works brilliantly under the blazing hot sun in Australia. We might have a slight problem in gloomy Glasgow! 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Their vehicle eVe is the fifth to be built and raced since the team was ... ... https://www.engineering.unsw.edu.au/news/sunswift%E2%80%99s-eve-smashes-the-world-record-for-the-fastest-long-range-electric-car Sunswift's eVe smashes the world record for the fastest long ... Jul 23, 2014 - UNSW's solar car racing team, Sunswift, smashes attempt at the world ... At exactly 11.40am EST, amidst heavy morning fog, eVe sets off to ... 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