JU Solar Team with their solar-powered racecar wins University Steel Prize 2017
JU Solar Team, a team of 25 students from Jönköping University in Sweden, wins the University Steel Prize 2017 with their solar-powered racecar. “With the goal to ‘build a car, race a continent and compete with the world’, JU Solar Team from Jönköping University has set the standard for the next generation of product developers. To succeed in their quest to cross the Australian continent and cover 3,000 km using only solar power, a lightweight structure was essential,” says SSAB’s Linda Petersson, chairman of the University Steel Prize jury. Replacing carbon fiber with an