A closer look at Red One

At 9.30 (Darwin time) this morning, officials checked whether the Red One complies with the regulations of the Bridgestone World Solar Challenge (BWSC). Red One was exposed to a lot of officials from the BWSC and also other competing teams.  All parts of the Red One...

Be prepared, we have SABINE!

Solar Team Twente unveils secret weapon for the Bridgestone World Solar Challenge Today, 12 October, we revealed our secret weapon with which we expect to win the Bridgestone World Solar Challenge. With a self-conceived and developed system, the solar car Red One...

Red One was hit by a crossing Kangaroo

“KANGAROO”, the test crew shouted from behind the solar car. On Tuesday October 6, we were testing our solar car ‘Red One’ on the Australian public road. Suddenly, a kangaroo jumped on the road from the roadside, exactly in front of the solar car. The kangaroo hit the...

The TT world

In the function ‘structural’ Gijs Rolff was responsible for the solar car’s structural design. He is now ‘head of technical’ and so it us up to him to make the car roadworthy both before and after a test day. Saturday night Saturday...

The unexpected choice

Together with Julian Biesheuvel and Coen Hartjes, Lars van der Aa was given the honourable task of designing the solar car’s appearance. Out of a range of concepts, they chose the most aerodynamic car. Thanks to this design the solar car sports three fairings....