{"id":144,"date":"2012-08-03T16:15:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-03T20:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/congratulations-to-the-university-of-michigan-solar-team"},"modified":"2012-08-03T16:15:00","modified_gmt":"2012-08-03T20:15:00","slug":"congratulations-to-the-university-of-michigan-solar-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/2012\/08\/congratulations-to-the-university-of-michigan-solar-team.html","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations to The University of Michigan Solar Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/6a00d83451706569e2016768f4d29a970b.jpg\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Univeristy of michigan solar car team solidworks 1\" border=\"0\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d83451706569e2016768f4d29a970b image-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/6a00d83451706569e2016768f4d29a970b-800wi.jpg\" title=\"Univeristy of michigan solar car team solidworks 1\" \/><\/a><br \/>On Saturday, The <a href=\"https:\/\/umsolar.com\/\" target=\"_self\">University of Michigan (U-M) solar racing team<\/a> won its fourth consecutive <a href=\"https:\/\/americansolarchallenge.org\/\" target=\"_self\">American Solar Challenge<\/a> (ASC), which is a 1,600 mile, week-long endurance race that began in Rochester, NY and concluded in St. Paul, MN. The win earned U-M its 7th National Championship and firmly establishes the team as the country\u2019s elite solar racing organization.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/6a00d83451706569e20177438c2e18970d.jpg\" style=\"float: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"UM Solar Car\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d83451706569e20177438c2e18970d\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/6a00d83451706569e20177438c2e18970d-200wi.jpg\" style=\"width: 200px; margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px;\" title=\"UM Solar Car\" \/><\/a>U-M\u2019s single-seat solar race car, Quantum, finished the race with the largest margin of victory in ASC history. Quantum is U-M\u2019s 11th solar vehicle and was created by a team of over 100 students. Completely powered by the sun, its top speed is estimated at 105 mph \u2013 pretty fast for a car that uses the same amount of energy as a hair dryer.<\/p>\n<p>Quantum\u2019s custom-made lithium ion battery was crucial to this race and the car\u2019s overall success. It was created from scratch with an assist from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solidworks.com\/sw\/products\/10169_ENU_HTML.htm?scid=sm_bl_UMSolarCar\" target=\"_self\">SolidWorks Simulation<\/a> to help test for overheating. In addition, the U-M team relied upon <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solidworks.com\/sw\/products\/10141_ENU_HTML.htm?scid=sm_bl_UMSolarcar\" target=\"_self\">SolidWorks 3D CAD software<\/a> to model all of Quantum\u2019s components, and determined the amount of space needed for each part. The result created a vehicle that was 30 percent more aerodynamic and 200 pounds lighter than its predecessor.<\/p>\n<p>Sunset is far from the team\u2019s mind. Even before the ASC, U-M began work on its next vehicle with the goal of becoming only the second American team to win the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldsolarchallenge.org\/\" target=\"_self\">World Solar Challenge<\/a> scheduled for October 2013. Car and eco enthusiasts can follow the team\u2019s progress or make a donation here: <a href=\"https:\/\/solarcar.engin.umich.edu\/\" target=\"_self\">https:\/\/solarcar.engin.umich.edu\/ <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Great job U-M! We can\u2019t wait to test drive car #12.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday, The University of Michigan (U-M) solar racing team won its fourth consecutive American Solar Challenge (ASC), which is a 1,600 mile, week-long endurance race that began in Rochester, NY and concluded in St. Paul, MN. The win earned<\/p>\n... <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/2012\/08\/congratulations-to-the-university-of-michigan-solar-team.html\">Continued<\/a>","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":1202,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4015,4344],"tags":[4016,4625,5698,4624,4122],"class_list":["post-144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mechanical-engineering","category-sustainability","tag-3d-cad","tag-american-solar-challenge","tag-mechanical-engineering","tag-solar-car","tag-university-of-michigan"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}