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TEST AND MEASUREMENT...

Accurate power analysis helps

boost solar race car’s range

The Yokogawa WT5000 Precision Power Analyzer is being used by Solar Team Twente,
to maximise their chances of winning the ultimate challenge for solar powered race
cars, the biennial Bridgestone World Solar Challenge

aving first taken part in 2005 and To be able to win the World Solar Challenge, a
finishing 9th as the highest placed new race car must generate as much solar energy as
entrant, this young team, comprising of possible and convert the electricity it generates as
Haerodynamic, electrical, mechanical efficiently as possible into mechanical power
and structural engineers from the University of delivered to the wheels. At the same time, it must
Twente and the Saxion University of Applied keep energy losses to a minimum: race teams pay
Sciences in the Netherland, were determined to win minute attention to aerodynamic design to keep
the 3000 km race from Darwin in the north of wind resistance to a minimum. In the case of RED
Australia to Adelaide in 2019. E, the name given to Solar Team Twente’s race car,

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