page_title: Sonnenwagen Aachen
section_title: Team Sonnenwagen Aachen
hierarchical_section_title: Sonnenwagen Aachen / Team Sonnenwagen Aachen
caption_attribution_description: English: Test drive of the Huawei Sonnenwagen solar car on Cox Peninsula near Darwin, NT
context_page_description: Sonnenwagen Aachen is a current project by students from RWTH Aachen University and FH Aachen for the development and construction of a solar car, to participate in the World Solar Challenge in Australia. The solar car race with a length of 3022 km from Darwin in Northern Territory to Adelaide in South Australia is known to be the longest solar car race in the world and has celebrated its 30th anniversary in October 2017.
  The project currently has about 40 active members from different backgrounds that work on the solar car in their free time. Sponsors provide financial, educational, software and hardware support to Sonnenwagen Aachen.
context_section_description: Team Sonnenwagen Aachen develops and manufactures the Sonnenwagen Aachen solar cars and participated in the Bridgestone World Solar Challenge 2017 for the first time. As of October 2017, 45 students from Aachen were actively contributing to the project. The team is structured into the following departments:
  Management
  Non-technical
  Sponsoring
  Marketing
  Logistics
  Project management
  IT
  Mechanics
  Chassis
  Structure
  Electrical engineering
  Battery
  Solar panel
  Motor
  Onboard electronics
  Aerodynamics
  Simulation
  Wind tunnel
  Driving strategy
caption: Test drive of the Huawei Sonnenwagen on Cox Peninsula
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