Poly’s solar race car rises from ashes

30 Sep 2015

The Straits Times, 30 Sep 2015 - Article featured SP’s fourth solar car, SunSPEC4, which will be Singapore’s sole entry in the 3,000 km World Solar Challenge in Australia next month. SunSPEC4 was conceptualized and built entirely by students and staff from the schools of Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering. During the race SunSPEC4 which is the only team from a polytechnic, will compete against 46 teams from 25 countries including big-name universities such as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Stanford. SP’s senior lecturer and SunSPEC4’s team manager, Steven Chew, and student leader Bryan Chu from the Diploma in Clean Energy, shared how 20 months of hard work was lost when the original car was damaged in a fire one month ago. With support from their sponsor, Singapore Power, the team rallied and managed to rebuild the car within a month. Singapore Power is also sponsoring $1 million to allow the team to take part in the next two editions of the World Solar Challenge. Article also shared unique features of the car and highlights of the World Solar Challenge.