Road legal, fully solar powered vehicles designed and built by students of MIT Solar Car since 1985. American Solar Challenge 2021 & 2022 Champs!

Feb 20, 2025 · MIT engineers developed the largest open-source dataset of car designs, including their aerodynamics, that could speed design of eco-friendly cars and electric vehicles. A new study on techno-economic outlooks for zero-emission heavy-duty trucking underscores the need for cross-sector collaboration.

The CityCar or MIT CityCar is an urban all-electric concept car designed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab. The project was conceived by William J. Mitchell and his Smart Cities Research Group.

Aug 25, 2022 · MIT’s Solar Electric Vehicle Team relied on 100% solar energy to drive their hand-built car Nimbus for 1,940 miles across all terrains and take first place in the 2022 American Solar Challenge.

It weighs less than a thousand pounds, parks in much less space than a Smart Car, and is expected to get the equivalent of 150 to 200 miles per gallon of gasoline. Since it is battery-electric, it produces no tailpipe emissions. The architecture of the CityCar is radical.

By contributing to existing projects, or by creating new ones of our own, we seek to build a fully open-source, modular Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle (FCEV) as a research platform to facilitate the development of hydrogen vehicles.

Meet Nimbus, the most recent iteration of our single-occupant vehicles (SOV), and champion of the 2021 American Solar Challenge SOV category. Nimbus 2022! MIT SEVT's most advanced single-occupant vehicle yet, Nimbus was completed in 2020 and won its first race at the 2021 American Solar Challenge, covering over 1100 miles in 32 driving hours.

MIT’s solar car team wins American Solar Challenge for the second year in a row The team credits strategy and team building for keeping the lead in a tight race. Sonny Oram

By providing two-seat CityCars, particularly in mobility-on-demand systems, we can take care of a large proportion of the demand with great efficiency. Mitchell, William J., Borroni-Bird, C. and Burns, L. (2009). Reinventing the Automobile: Personal Urban Mobility for …

Oct 26, 2021 · Nimbus, the car designed by the MIT Solar Electric Vehicle Team, won its category at the 2021 American Solar Challenge (ASC), traveling 1,109 miles at an average speed of 38.4 miles per hour in a...