The solar car team placed first at the annual competition, which took place at the Circuit of the Americas Formula 1 track in Austin, Texas, last week. Teams were required to race a 3.41-mile, 20-turn ...

AMES, Iowa – Hyperion spent most of Tuesday racing down the road at the speed limit – including some stretches at 55 mph. That made Hyperion, Iowa State’s student-designed and student-built solar race ...

Team PrISUm is currently putting the final touches to its Anthelion solar vehicle, with high hopes of a winning place in this year's American Solar Challenge.

AMES, Iowa – Team PrISUm’s latest solar race car is already ahead of the last one. Over the past week, the team has taken Hyperion, this year’s cross-country race car, out for several test runs, ...

Dylan Neal has some high expectations for the PrISUm Solar Car Team’s latest project. “This car truly is going to be revolutionary,” the project leader and Iowa State University senior said Wednesday.

IOWA CITY - Iowa State University's Team PrISUm, which has been building solar cars since 1989, has given the University of Iowa's new solar car team a jump start on building their own car. The ...

Talk about a hot rod! This baby can take the heat of a 27-million-degree nuclear fusion engine and turn out up to 15 horsepower! It’ll do 0 to 35 miles ...

Police pulled over Iowa State University’s solar car team during the American Solar Challenge, and the team ran into more problems during the journey. The race took place July 21-28. It started ...

AMES -- Iowa State University's solar car team, Team PrISUm, finished 11th out of a field of 13 schools still remaining in the 1,100-mile American Solar Challenge. The race from Broken Arrow, Okla ...

Team PrISUm, the Iowa State University solar car team competing in the American Solar Challenge, would have preferred staying overnight somewhere west of Grand Island.

Years before electric cars were common, Iowa State University students were working on a solar race car. In June of 1993, the ISU team prepared their solar car “PrISUm” for a 1,000-mile race ...