The ISU solar car team will travel to Texas for the start of its summer season’s biggest competition. Starting July 21, 2014, in Austin, Texas, the American Solar Challenge will end in the Twin Cities in Minnesota. The race is scheduled to pass through Ames on July 26 and 27. Iowa State’s team, PrISUm, seeks to …Continue reading “PrISUm to race through Ames for American Solar Challenge 2014”
Members of the Order of the Knoll got to talk with students and check out Team PrISUm’s solar car on Friday, October 4, during an ISU Foundation event. The team talked about the potential of solar power as an alternative to non-renewable fuel sources and showed guests the ins and outs of the car.
A team of Iowa State University students is back after a three-week competition fueled by the sun. Team prISUm took its solar car Hyperion for Channel 13 to test drive Friday morning on Today in Iowa. The team came in second in the American Solar Challenge earlier this month. It’s a 1,650-mile road race from Rochester, New …Continue reading “Team PrISUm visits Channel 13”
Update: June 29 Adding 78 laps to its run on Saturday, Team PrISUm made an extreme comeback on the final day of the Formula race to land in third place. Only two laps short of first, Iowa State’s solar car completed 191 laps at the F1 race track in Austin, Texas. Even dealing with the …Continue reading “Heatwave works to Team PrISUm’s advantage”
Two big projects are crowding the Team PrISUm garage this summer. Walk in and the left side of the garage is full of 4-foot by 8-foot sheets of polyurethane foam. The student-engineers of Team PrISUm are gluing the sheets together to build big blocks that will be machined, sanded and polished into molds. The molds will help …Continue reading “Team PrISUm hopes for Texas heat at this summer’s Formula Sun Grand Prix”
Building new solar-powered cars and taking them to competitions and outreach events around Iowa and the US takes a lot of dedication and work, not to mention financial assistance. That’s why Team PrISUm depends on sponsorships and donations to maintain its successful program. One of the team’s biggest sponsors, the Iowa Energy Center, has been …Continue reading “Solar car group relies on continuous sponsorships”
Hyperion cruised across the St. Paul finish line Saturday for a second place finish despite a rainy morning. Waking to gloomy skies and steady rain, Team PrISUm got off to a slow start as it left LaCrosse, Wisconsin. The team decided to take today’s final leg of the American Solar Car Challenge cautiously, seeing the …Continue reading “Hyperion’s reliability earns Team PrISUm a second place finish”
Update: July 20, 2012 AMES, Iowa – Team PrISUm was feeling good at the start of Friday’s racing: “The sun is back today!” the team tweeted. Sunny and hot conditions have been very good to Hyperion, Iowa State’s solar race car. In steamy conditions that have overheated the battery packs of other cars, Hyperion has …Continue reading “Team PrISUm competes in the American Solar Challenge”
The frame of Team PrISUm’s solar car Hyperion was displayed during the Veishea parade and then outside Marston Hall on Saturday, April 21. The team has thus far been successful at sticking to their aggressive timeline to prepare the car for this summer’s 1,600 mile race, which will run from Rochester, New York, to St. …Continue reading “PrISUm’s Hyperion shines during Veishea”
Team PrISUm, Iowa State’s solar car team, has been working to put the finishing touches on this year’s car. In July, the team will be participating in a three-week solar car race from Rochester, N.Y., to St. Paul, Minn., its longest journey yet. PrISUm races every two years, allowing one year for design and one …Continue reading “ISU Solar Car Team to make longest journey yet”
The Anthelion, a solar car created by Iowa State’s PrISUm solar car team, finished fourth in the 2011 Formula Sun Grand Prix at at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. The PrISUm team competed from May 2 to May 6. Evan Stumpges, PrISUm project director and senior in mechanical engineering, didn’t mind attending the Formula Sun Grand …Continue reading “Fourth place finish gives PrISUm team future inspiration”
Members of Iowa State University’s solar car team are in the midst of taking their unique, three-wheeled vehicle on a tour of Iowa. After racing to a fourth place finish at the Formula Sun Grand Prix, Team PrISUm is now taking the solar car across Iowa as part of the Sun Run Tour, visiting schools and …Continue reading “Solar car on the road across Iowa”
Anthelion finally proved it’s a quick and reliable solar race car. On the third and final day of this year’s Formula Sun Grand Prix for student-designed and student-built solar cars, Team PrISUm raced for another 156 laps around a nearly one-mile section of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway’s road course. That was good enough to maintain the team’s hold …Continue reading “Anthelion shows its speed and races to fourth in Formula Sun Grand Prix”
The students of Team PrISUm were feeling good about the start to this year’s Formula Sun Grand Prix at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. The team qualified sixth and began the day recording lap times near the top of the grid. The electrical problems that had plagued Anthelion (the $250,000 solar race car is named after the rare halo …Continue reading “Solar car hits the race pace, but is slowed by chassis repairs”
Team PrISUm, Iowa State’s solar car racing team, will be back on track in early May at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. This year’s Formula Sun Grand Prix is part of the speedway’s Emerging Tech Day, a special event celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Indianapolis 500. Read the full story from ISU News Service Read …Continue reading “Solar car team ready to race at 100th anniversary of Indy 500”
