Western Michigan Solar Car

We are a team of students from western michigan university in kalamazoo michigan.

Western michigan solar car.

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. Sunseeker solar car project western michigan university kalamazoo mi. It takes a team of engineering students to design build and.

Since 1989 the university of michigan solar car team has been designing building and racing america s best solar vehicles. Although there are sunnier states than michigan the average electricity price is around 0 14 kwh which is above the national average. Curious to know more. In july 2012 michigan s largest rooftop array 977 6 kw was installed in canton on the ikea store.

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. Solar farms and arrays. With 9 national championships 7 top 3 world finishes and 1 international championship we are america s number one team. Cars sponsors donate who are we.

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. In 2015 dte built a 1 1 mw solar farm at domino s farms near ann arbor slightly larger than the ford carport. Read about our history and mission on the about us page. Our team s legacy of excellence has been upheld over its 30 year history.

We design build and race solar powered vehicles in the american solar challenge. Electrum is the fifteenth car made by michigan solar since being founded in 1989. Meeting times spring semester 2020. 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.

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. We build and race. Ford motor company and dte energy built the largest solar plant in the state a 1 04 mw solar car port at ford s world headquarters in dearborn michigan in 2015. 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.