| SCar | UIR Solar Car |
| Funding agency: | RDI |
| Project's coordinator: | F. Ghananmeh |
| UIR project's team: | A. Ben Abdellah; M. F. Ghanameh; O. Almatbagi |
| Students: | Lamalemadil, Iaagoubimouad, Hadouan tarik, Bennani mohieddine, Guairyoussef , Habaoui amal |
| Budget: | 350000 Dh |
| Duration: | 1 year |
| Abstract: | The sun sends more energy to the earth in one hour than the whole planet needs in a year. Imagine if we could capture that energy directly and convert it to a form that could power our cities, homes, and cars! Many researches are focusing on how to improve the sun's energy usage. One way is to use solar thermal panels to collect thermal energy for air and water heating. Another way is to use photovoltaic (PV) cells (solar cells) to directly convert sunlight to electricity. In this work a novel ultralight solar-powered car will be designed. Energy saving will be considered as the main research task in this design.
To enhance the performance efficiency, a drag reduction will be considered. To achieve this energy saving, the car body design will be investigated both, experimentally in low speed wind Tunnel and numerically using ANSYS-Fluent simulation software. In addition to solar PV cells and basic equipment, solar-powered cars often also feature battery packs to store generated electricity, and thereby allow travel even when the sun isn’t out (or the sunlight isn’t very strong).
The main objective of this project is to construct a solar car to allow to participate in the national competitions and then the international competitions, the coming competition is Moroccan Solar Race Challenge organized under the High Patronage of His Majesty King Mohammed VI by IRESEN and take place in September 2019 by making a round trip of a 75 km route between the red city of Marrakech and the green city of Benguerir which makes a total of 150 km.
Solar car configuration
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| Consortium: | International University of Rabat (UIR) |
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