page_title: Blue Sky Solar Racing
section_title: Faust
hierarchical_section_title: Blue Sky Solar Racing / Car Models / Faust
caption_attribution_description: English: Faust
context_page_description: Blue Sky Solar Racing is a student-run initiative at the University of Toronto. The team aims to promote environmentally friendly technologies through the design, construction and showcasing of world class solar powered vehicles. The project encourages students to participate in a long-term multidisciplinary project to augment their skills learned in class, and to make a positive impact on their community.
  Since its foundation in 1997, the team has produced eight vehicles that competed in a total of nine international solar car racing competitions. Their most recent vehicle, Horizon, was ranked 12th at World Solar Challenge 2015, and 1st in Canada. In 2016, Horizon raced in the American Solar Challenge and finished 3rd place overall, and 1st in Canada.
  In addition to racing, the Blue Sky team also actively participates in community events to promote environmental awareness and innovation in technology. Through attending showcase events in schools around Toronto, the team has generated a great deal of public interest in science and engineering while also educating students about environmental issues.
context_section_description: After learning from the experiences of their previous experimental vehicles, Blue Sky Solar Racing was prepared to make a splash on the international stage. In the design of their third generation vehicle – Faust – the team focused on several key concepts to produce a solar vehicle that was competitive in international competitions; mainly, to minimize drag and weight. This led to several drastic departures in their design traditions. First of all, in contrast to Blue II, Faust was designed as a three-wheeler to minimize rolling resistance and decrease the overall weight of the vehicle. Secondly, the chassis for Faust was made of an extremely lightweight hollow tube aluminum space frame which decreased the overall weight of the vehicle to only 440 lbs, nearly half of the weight of Blue II.  These departures in design lead to vast performance improvements which made it possible for the vehicle to achieve a top speed of 140 km/h. Construction Faust was completed in 2001 and it participated in two competitions in the same year.
  Weight:     620 lbs
  
  Power:      950 watts, 16.2% silicon solar cells
  
  Batteries:  Lithium ion-polymer
  
  Competitions: World Solar Challenge 2001 – 12th place, American Solar Challenge 2001 – 14th place
caption: Faust
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