Teams of teens from Pasadena and Palmdale aim to use the sun to get them from Texas to the high desert during the Solar Car Challenge.
finished second in the Advanced Classic Division that year, with 284.6 miles logged. The experienced Palmdale team also finished second in their division during last year’s closed-track event at Texas Motor Speedway.
One issue is the delicacy of the solar panels, noted Wang, who started her school’s engineering club when she was a sophomore in 2021. The panels of course have to be exposed to the sun to charge. But if they’re damaged along the road, by a crash or wayward pebble, she said, there goes your power. The team hopes to get between 20 and 45 miles out of each charge. After factoring in time to recharge, that means they might travel at most 120 miles each day during the allotted six-hour window, at speeds of up to 30 mph.
Palmdale High’s Helios Falcon should be able to cruise at 42 mph, according to Hannah Valdez, 16, who’s worked as the team’s media lead. If they hit 472 miles, they will have beaten theirStudents from Palmdale High’s Solar Falcon Race Team work on building their solar car. The Solar Falcons are one of 20 teams participating in the 2023 Solar Car Challenge, where students drive solar cars they built from Texas to Palmdale.
The Helios Falcon, built by Palmdale High’s Solar Falcon Race Team. The Solar Falcons are one of 20 teams participating in the 2023 Solar Car Challenge, where students drive solar cars they built from Texas to Palmdale. While teams aren’t facing cloudy weather, which would of course be a big problem in terms of charging, the heat wave rolling through the Southwest is worrisome.
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