Western Michigan Solar Car

Since 1989 the university of michigan solar car team has been designing building and racing america s best solar vehicles.

Western michigan solar car.

Meeting times spring semester 2020. Solar farms and arrays. In 2015 dte built a 1 1 mw solar farm at domino s farms near ann arbor slightly larger than the ford carport. Western michigan university doesn t quite have a stock car racing team but the sunseeker solar car team might be the closest thing.

The team started the competition by earning 10 green stickers as the third team to complete the scruitineering process and finished in fifth place overall. Western michigan university recent graduate david ludens left junior nicholas killoran and recent graduate kevin kalchik work on the sunseeker 8 solar car at the western michigan university. The team has won the american solar challenge nine times had podium finishes in the bridgestone world solar challenge six times and won its first international championship in 2015 at the abu dhabi solar challenge. On a cost per watt w basis a solar panel installation in michigan ranges in price from 2 69 to 3 65.

Kalamazoo mich western michigan university s sunseeker solar race car team celebrated its 30th anniversary with an impressive performance at the formula sun grand prix in austin texas. We design build and race solar powered vehicles in the american solar challenge. We are a team of students from western michigan university in kalamazoo michigan. With 9 national championships 7 top 3 world finishes and 1 international championship we are america s number one team.

Electrum is the fifteenth car made by michigan solar since being founded in 1989. Curious to know more. Cars sponsors donate who are we. Read about our history and mission on the about us page.

Sunseeker solar car project western michigan university kalamazoo mi. This makes solar power a sound investment because every unit of energy produced is worth more than the average price of electricity in the us. Our team s legacy of excellence has been upheld over its 30 year history. Although there are sunnier states than michigan the average electricity price is around 0 14 kwh which is above the national average.

It takes a team of engineering students to design build and. This analysis is for a 5 kw photo voltaic system exposed to the average sunlight conditions of michigan. We are the sunseeker solar car project a team of students from western michigan university. We build and race.