{"id":405,"date":"2008-07-12T15:41:42","date_gmt":"2008-07-12T23:41:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/spotlight\/?p=405"},"modified":"2010-03-22T10:13:27","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T18:13:27","slug":"hot-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/spotlight\/2008\/07\/12\/hot-cars\/","title":{"rendered":"Hot Cars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Follow OSU in the 2008 North American Solar Car Challenge.<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_406\" class=\"wp-caption thumbnail alignright\" style=\"width: 228px;\">\n    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-406\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/spotlight\/files\/2010\/03\/solarcar_p2.jpg\" alt=\"OSU Solar Vehicle Team\" width=\"228\" height=\"182\" \/>\n    <figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">OSU Solar Vehicle Team<\/figcaption>\n    <\/figure>\n<p>Designing and building a solar-powered car fit to take on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americansolarchallenge.org\/\">North American Solar  Challenge<\/a> took <a href=\"http:\/\/oregonstate.edu\/groups\/solar\/\">OSU  Solar Vehicle Team<\/a> captains and <a href=\"http:\/\/engr.oregonstate.edu\/\">College of Engineering<\/a> doctoral  students Kathy Van Wormer and Hai-Yue Han three years of work and  $50,000. They also enlisted the help of nearly two dozen team members to  make sure that Rain Dancer, which is powered by more than 400 solar  cells and weighs 600 pounds, was competition-ready.<\/p>\n<p>But that was only the beginning of their trip.<\/p>\n<p>The North American Solar Challenge, in which Van Wormer, Han and 10  of their teammates are currently participating, is a 2,400-mile race  from Dallas, Texas to Calgary, Alberta, Canada. It\u2019s the longest solar  power race in the world, beating out the World Solar Challenge by almost  500 miles. OSU\u2019s team is racing with 15 others from universities all  over the United States and Canada, including the University of Michigan,  Northwestern University, Queens University and the University of  Kentucky. \u201cEveryone here is fantastic. The atmosphere is so helpful,\u201d  says Van Wormer. \u201cIt\u2019s the best time I\u2019ve ever had. We are definitely  doing this again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rain Dancer\u2019s solar array only outputs around 1.5 hp during the  brightest time of the day, forcing it to drive more than 2,000 miles  with less power than a hairdryer.<\/p>\n<p>Follow the OSU Solar Vehicle team\u2019s progress in the race <a href=\"http:\/\/oregonstate.edu\/groups\/solar\/\">on their blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Follow OSU in the 2008 North American Solar Car Challenge. Designing and building a solar-powered car fit to take on the North American Solar Challenge took OSU Solar Vehicle Team captains and College of Engineering doctoral students Kathy Van Wormer and Hai-Yue Han three years of work and $50,000. They also enlisted the help of&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/spotlight\/2008\/07\/12\/hot-cars\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":189,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1730],"tags":[872,1729],"class_list":["post-405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-and-sustainability","tag-engineering","tag-healthy-planet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/spotlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/spotlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/spotlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/spotlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/189"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/spotlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/spotlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":686,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/spotlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405\/revisions\/686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/spotlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/spotlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/spotlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}