Team PrISUm
races to the start line of the American Solar Challenge
AMES, Iowa
– Team PrISUm’s latest solar race car is already ahead of the last one.
Over the
past week, the team has taken Hyperion, this year’s cross-country race car, out
for several test runs, including a trip to Grinnell.
That long
test run was huge for the student-engineers working on their $330,000 project.
That test drive told the students their aerodynamic ideas are making a
difference, that their target speed should be about 45 mph and that they still
need to do some tweaking to get the most out of their car.
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