aCentauri Aletsch

Solar race car | ETH Zürich
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World Solar Challenge, the toughest solar race in the world. Crossed the continent of Australia from north to south on pure solar energy and covered over 3000km.

It participated in the World Solar Challenge in Australia for the first time and finished - after only one year of intensive work from scratch. The young ETH team has done a tremendous job.

The solar racing car developed by students of ETH Zurich on their own initiative weighs 188kg, is 5m long, can travel at 80km/h on purely solar power (120km/h top speed) and would have a range of 400+ km when powered only by the buffer battery. As a development partner, we supported the team in design, concept and technical matters. From the early virtual phase, where we used our VR system to simulate access topics to the final race, where we were able to help in an emergency situation.

Ines Kast from aCentauri und Jörg Evertz from Tribecraft working on shape studies and the CAD of the aeroshell
Pascal Burkhard, Gian-Leo Willi and Karim Bingoel from Team aCentauri are practicing how to enter and exit the vehicle in Tribecrafts Virtual Reality Lab
VR simulation of the vehicle
Design and color definitions of the livery
Foil wrapping of the carbon fiber vehicle body at Frontwork
Designspeech of Arno Lenzi from Tribecraft at the rollout at the former airfield in Dübendorf
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“Weight: 188kg
Length: 5m
Speed purely by solar power: 80km/h
Top speed: 120km/h with buffer battery”

Launch:

2023

Our contribution:

Methodology of CAD free-form modeling
Support of shaping the models
Ideation for partial technical solutions
Design concept
Product design support
Graphic design, livery

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