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Students of the RWTH and FH Aachen designing and building a race car purely powered by the sun.

Sonnenwagen Aachen is a team of students from Aachen.
Every two years we design, develop and build a unique racecar, which can be powered by nothing but solar energy. With those solar cars ("Sonnenwagen") we participate at different races all over the world. The most important being the World Solar Challenge in Australia. During this event we drive 3000km across the Australian desert and try to reach the finish line as the first of ~50 other solar cars.
In 2022 we achieved a double-win at the European Solar Challenge, which is the biggest solar race in Europe, and won the Italian Solar Challenge.
In Australia we won the Award for the Best Newcomer in 2017 and finished as 6th in 2019.

World Solar Challenge, racing, Fahrstrategie, Aerodynamik, Leichtbau, solar energy, aerodynamics, european solar challenge, driving strategy, solarcar, and racing car