Every year, the Sacramento Municipal Utility District puts on a Solar Car Race for high schoolers to participate in.
When we think about solar car races, it’s usually multi-million dollar cars being raced by college teams across vast areas. With their only power coming from the sun, it’s a big challenge that often results in average speeds of around 15 MPH, and takes a grueling amount of time to complete.
. The rules are pretty simple: SMUD gives you the same solar panel as every other racer, to make it a fair race. You bring the rest of the little car, ready to plug it in and go. This engineering challenge is what the race is all about. Here’s a video from the 2017 event: As you can see, not every car is very successful. Some go a LOT faster than others, and some don’t really go much at all. But everyone has fun and everyone comes away learning about science and engineering. Sacramento’s KCRA attended this year’s event, andIs this the single most important piece of cleantech news we’ve ever written? It isn’t, but like with the Sunmobile, one of these kids might go on to do things that transforms the entire industry.
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