UNSW Sydney’s Sunswift 7 solar-powered electric car has claimed a Guinness World Record by going 1000km on a single charge in under 12 hours. The car, designed and built by students, posted a verified time of 11 hours 52.08 minutes for the distance at the Australian Automotive Research Centre (AARC) in Wensleydale, Victoria. That equates to an average speed of nearly 85km/h and secured the Sunswift Racing team the record for the ‘Fastest EV over 1000km on a single charge’.

I was delighted to help supervise the software engineering team within SunSwift from 2020 – 2023 as part of the team. The official honour – and Guinness World Record certificate – was conferred a few days later once timing information and car telemetry data had been analysed and confirmed by a team of experts.

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