PrISUm

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PrISUm Solar Car is the multidisciplinary student-run solar car racing team from Iowa State University that designs and builds solar powered vehicles to compete in the American Solar Challenge (ASC). The club was founded in 1989 by a group of engineering honor students from Tau Beta Pi and was simply known as the ISU Solar Car Project. In 1990, the team adopted the name of its first car, PrISUm.

  • Since 1989, Team PrISUm has built and raced 14 different cars and is one of only a handful of teams to have qualified and raced a new vehicle for almost every Sunrayce and American Solar Challenge races.
  • Team PrISUm made the first solar car from the state of Iowa with its entrance in the 1990 GM Sunrayce USA.

Team Composition

Cars by year

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