Welcome to the official Solar Fern blog!
The Solar Fern is a solar powered racing car built for the 2007 World Solar Challenge, where it achieved 12th place out of 18 cars in Adventure class, despite having only 600W of solar power!
The Solar Fern was built by a small group of engineers and friends from Christchurch, New Zealand. We are passionate about solar energy and electric vehicles, and competing in the World Solar Challenge has been a life long dream. Details of our car can be found on our websites.
Highlights from our 2007 race can be found here
Check out our official web site and our 2007 web site
While we will not take the Solar Fern to the 2009 World Solar Challenge due to lack of funding, I will be attending myself and hope to keep an up to date blog of the race here.
We are planning a tour of New Zealand in early 2010 and, all going well, we will attend the South African Solar Challenge in September/October 2010.
We're also planning to build a new car for the 2011 World Solar Challenge, so watch this space for updates!
Rob - Solar Fern team leader
