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Summer Summary
It’s been a busy summer in preparation for the World Solar Challenge this coming October. Here’s a summary and some photos of what we’ve been up to since Luminos’s unveiling. A few days after our...
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Volkswagen Convoy Vehicles
One of our project’s platinum sponsors, Volkswagen, has once again generously provided our team with four vehicles to constitute our race convoy. Acquiring and outfitting vehicles for the the six weeks...
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Thank You, Solitaire Automotive Group
A few days after arriving in Melbourne, we made the nine hour drive out to Adelaide where we’ll stage our final car and convoy preparations before heading to the outback for testing. This year we were...
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First Week in Australia
Greetings from Adelaide! Stanford Solar Car and Luminos have arrived in the land down under. This is what we’ve been up to in our first week here. The few members arrived on Monday, September 9th....
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VW Australia Convoy Vehicles Review
Back in September, we arrived in Australia for the 2013 World Solar Challenge. While we did race a car across the outback on the power of nothing but the sun, this wouldn’t have happened without a...
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Winter Quarter Summary
It’s been a while since we’ve had a proper update. In the time since our return from Australia, we’ve selected new team leadership, welcomed Luminos back to the United States, and moved our sights...
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Spring Quarter Update
It’s hard to believe that it’s already been half a year since the last race, and that in a year we’ll be hard at work in the midst of constructing our next car. Things have been picking up in pace ever...
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TEDxStanford 2014: Life Lessons from a Solar Car
May was a busy month for the team in terms of outreach and team events. Only 2 days after our team’s first Open Garage Talk, our Business & Logistics Lead, Rachel Abril, presented on behalf of...
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New Regulations for 2015 World Solar Challenge!
Three weeks ago on June 5th, the organizing committee released the rules for the 2015 World Solar Challenge. The World Solar Challenge, for anyone new to solar racing, is the arguably the world’s...
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Join the Stanford Solar Car Project!
Welcome to the Farm, Class of 2018 & transfers! And welcome back to all of our classmates! The Stanford Solar Car Project is in the midst of our year and a half long design cycle, as we’re...
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Looking back on 2014
The team’s design cycle for the next race began in earnest in June of 2014, with the release of the 2015 World Solar Challenge regulations. (Naturally, this coincided with a long lull in our blog...
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Manufacturing Arctan: Winter & Spring Update
It’s been a while since our last lengthy update, and since then we’ve built up a good portion of our next car. Our manufacturing cycle began in earnest over our Spring Break, when we received our car...
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