The Solar Car Team of the University of Puerto Rico, known as Solar Engineering Research Racing Team (SERRT), is the only solar car team in Puerto Rico, and it is our university's project aimed at solar energy research with a focus on transportation.

The University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez had not taken part of a solar race since 1995, but on August 2012, twenty-nine students accepted the challenge to restart the project with fresh ideas to the new generation of solar-propelled vehicles developed in the university.

This year, our solar vehicle will take part of the American Solar Challenge. It's main event is an 8 day, 1700+ mile road course traveling through 7 states, from Austin, TX to Minneapolis, MN. Our team will be competing with top engineering universities from the United States and all around the world.

The car is currently being tested every day while drivers get comfortable and used to it.  We have already reached speeds of 50mph!

Our current schedule:

June 1st-June 15th: Test and Strategy practice                                                              June 17th: Car gets shipped to Florida.                                                                            June 19th: Team picks up car on Florida and starts the drive to Austin, TX.          June 20th: Continue testing until race day!

Adding up transportation, vehicle rental, meals and hotel nights we got a grand total of $25,000. We can only do this with your help. 

To read more about the competition, you may access the American Solar Challenge website:

http://americansolarchallenge.org/the-competion/ascfsgp-2014/

Visit our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/Serrt.Uprm

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