Podcasts about sunswift

#solar #solarcar #unsw #electricvehicle #podcast Richard Hopkins is the Founder of HEVN Australia's Automotive Resurgence, Professor of Practice UNSW Sydney & the Former Formula One Head of Operations at Red Bull Racing Recently he along with the students at UNSW broke the Guinness World Record with their Sunswift 7, securing the title of the fastest solar-powered race car over 1,000 km. Powered by a battery and solar panels mounted on its roof and hood, the EV went on a test truck where it ran 1,000 km on a single charge in under 12 hours — reaching an average of 85km/h. Designed and built by students, the car weighs just 500kg, about one-quarter that of a Tesla As a Professor at UNSW Sydney, Richard Hopkins scaled the universities Sunswift Solar Electric Prototype car project into global leader in renewable and sustainable transport. Richard Hopkins has been involved in high performance all his career. HEVN, has the ambition to reignite Australia's automotive industry. Building climate zero production cars with a focus on innovation, design and sustainably – all underpinned by F1 technology. Prior to Richard immigrating to Australia, he was the Head of Operations for the Red Bull Formula One Team. Richard Hopkins played a pivotal role in changing the team's fortunes from having never won a Grand Prix, to turning them into multiple winners and consecutive World Champions. Richard started working in F1 at the age of 16 in 1987 and spent a total of 28 years working alongside world-leading technology and some of the world's best engineers, innovators and some incredible racing drivers. The knowledge and experience he gained along the way are now being used in his next chapter.

An experimental solar-powered electric car built by university students has completed 1000km on a single 12-hour battery charge, breaking the Guinness world record. The car, called Sunswift 7, completed a record run at the Australian Automotive Research Centre at a claimed average speed of 84.17km/h with an unofficial drive time of 11 hours, 53 minutes and 32 seconds. Richard Hopkins, Team principal at Sunswift Racing told Jamie Burnett, filling in for Oliver Peterson, that the gravity and scale of what they have achieved is probably the most relevant achievement for Sunswift 7. "Sunswift racing has had a tradition of breaking world records over the last 25 years - this is one everyone can relate to, it's around electric vehicles and around range of electric vehicles," he told Jamie. "What we were trying to prove was what is actually possible and achievable with largely existing technology."See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

What goes into lecturing some of CSE's biggest courses? While also co-founding a startup on the side? Raathan and Sunny get unprecedented insights from UNSW lecturer Hayden Smith as they get a firsthand account of his journey from high school in rural NSW to leading the record-breaking Sunswift team at uni, and now lecturing while working on his own company! 0:00:49 Getting into computer programming 0:07:13 Time at uni 0:21:30 Working at Microsoft 0:39:53 Co-founding a startup 1:13:39 Lecturing at UNSW 1:52:45 Managing time 1:55:04 Advice for listeners

Australian science has become a political playground by Ian Woolf, Part 2 of Judy Ford talking about slowing women's ageing, Will Green talks abouyt the Sunswift solar racer. Production checked by Charles Willock, Produced and hosted by Ian Woolf Support Diffusion by making a contribution

Ciguatera disrupts genes by Ian Woolf, Rob Ireland talks about the Sunswift solar racing car, ready for commuters? Production checked by Charles Willock, Produced and hosted by Ian Woolf Code Monkey by Jonathan Coulton Support Diffusion by making a contribution

Beyond Zero talks to Hayden Smith from The University of New South Wales' Sunswift about progress towards Australia's first road legal solar sports car.