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- And they're off! Under the brutal desert sun, our competitors encounter their first roadblocks. Extreme heat, hazardous winds, and brush fires are all signs that the Australian Outback means business. But the dangers of experimental tech make it a lot worse - and a spontaneous car battery fire spells disaster for one team.
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0:00 Race Day One
5:00 The Race Is Underway
6:58 Solar Energy
8:17 Trouble For Stanford
10:47 The First Break
15:30 Dehydration
17:02 Forest Fires
19:50 Day One Ends - บันเทิง
*Stanford from the US, is a team that exepected to be a threat this year.*
Stanford car, the first one to burn
it is a threat..
.. burning other cars if at close proximity
They painted their car black. A color that absorbs heat. That is why their batteries overheated
@SirManDudeGuy1 no, they were clearly having a purely electrical issue and should have pulled off shortly after the start if it was allowed. It could be anything from damage to a cell from modification to cell imbalance
So that's how the fires in Australia started.
Lol
Finally the truth
Yea
Not a Jewish space laser?
I hope Stanford isn't discouraged by their early departure from the race, especially the driver! She should be proud of herself for being able to recognize there was an issue before the team could tell her to get out! She also responded very quickly and efficiently when escaping the car. Please, keep racing, all of you!
''I have started the race ,......I guess !''
Best line to start a race .
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Stanford 100% needs to engineer a better emergency exit system.
Better yet, engineer a better car.
Don't judge them they are newbies
@@WarguyPlayz well actually both because it should take no time in an emergency to escape and the car battery should include a cooling system to decrease the chance of a fire
@@magicgluestoneny2487 you wouldnt be saying that if she had died
ikr, why hold the canopy with a million elastic bands that need undoing, if instead, they could just make it hinge away like in all the other cars
The fact that the car was glitching at the starting line would have had me worried about it catching fire.
foreshadowing
@John Smith it was a pretty close call when it actually did light on fire though
@@Silver-Arrow yes because she started to panic. Romain Grosjean she isn't. 😂
Pretty normal for American made cars to break down or catch on fire.
It's the American way.
Really? What about your iPhone? Do you throw it out of the window every time it glitches?
About the temperature problem on minute 15:10, they could place a polarized film in the front of the cockpit and a reflective one on top that also covers the back.
That would definitely reduce cockpit temperature a lot while not adding any significant weight to the vehicle.
The reflective material could also send ricochet photons to the solar panels.
@Rik rik aerodynamics
@Rick3y Rick3y - A small vent hole at least in the rear cockpit or rear vents somewhere to allow inside heat out. I know it's all about aerodynamics, but what are the rules and what's allowed?
The guy from Belgium said : Michigan doesn’t wave ....I’m dead 🤣
What does mean .... doesn't wave..??
@@naturelust123 wave the hand as a sign of saying hi
lol
Next race they should have safety requirements to keep the internal temp below like 110 or something like that.
@@AmourLearning as bad as they are now? I invite you to look into the conditions of a couple of decennia back
@@terra54 I was basing the number off the graphic at 15:20.
@@Krebzonide yeah I realised it was the documentarys fault sry
next time they should cancel the contest. useless waste of money, zero innovation, just ego and eco lunatism.
@@AmourLearning if you were a kid, you aren't thinking about conditions in the cockpit 😂, you just want to race. And motor racing is the safest it's ever been so you're obviously talking complete bollocks anyway
This is one of the coolest seeker videos I’ve seen y’all even got veritasium to commentate it that’s sooo cool!!!!
His name is Derek ok
@@markshiman5690 His TH-cam name is still veritasium so your passive aggressiveness uncalled for
@@markshiman5690 bugger off Mark, no one wants your negativity here.
@@markshiman5690 well look at you all high and mighty!
@@MrQwerty2524 Facts!
Just made myself laugh imagining how this would go if it were run in Great Britain.
They'd have the added challenge of potholes being literally everywhere
@@jackmckenna4911 ppppprh yeie
They will steel everything and make Mansons.
Foff
That's the thing. It wouldn't go.
I was in this event in cruiser class. My uni set a maximum team size of 12 people, and we only had 4 cars plus the solar car. The work load was ridiculous.
I must have seen you taking it fairly easy at Adelaide River! Hope your new car is coming along OK. The usual Cruiser non-coverage pisses me off...
"michigan doesn't wave"
Ain't Nobody Got Time For That
They even illegally block their competitor who passed them in the next video. Horrible sportsmanship
@@ender-gaming Don't make stuff up. If they made an illegal move they would have been disqualified. People hate on Michigan because they're the best team from America every year.
@@Ergzay no, we have TH-cam Premium. Michigan was forced to serve a 1 hour time penalty before official race end was recorded for them. They very much broke the rules. Michigan’s lead car illegally blocked Tokai from passing for quite some time, by basically speeding up or slowing down depending on traffic passing zones and oncoming traffic, to prevent passing. That is against race rules as convoy cars required to allow the solar cars to pass.
@@KinaestheticDmaw Then I can only assume that something was misreported as Michigan wouldn't do such a thing.
I walked past the Team Twente car everyday when I went to college (BC), it's fun to see the backstory to it and that team doing do well. Great video!!
imagine building your car so perfectly that it ends up cooking your driver lol
"Michigan doesn't wave". That made me laugh very hard.
These youngsters really give us hope for the future. It is so heartening to see them enjoying themselves so much, whilst doing amazing things for humanity and the environment.
Wow guys this video was so well made!!!
I think this race requires more natural conditions. It's not safe putting someone in that oven of a cockpit.
The cars wouldnt run in normal conditions, the outback was chosen for its strong sunlight
That's also why it doesn't make solar cars a reasonable alternative (at least currently).
@@Sonathan1893 thats not the endgoal. battery technology and technology in energy savings is more important
yeah the race shouldn't be about being able to withstand crazy temperature and swapping drivers. just set a maximum temp in the cockpit with a sensor that the organization would monitor. less stops, less water to carry, this way they would come up with great ideas on how to improve heat management. clever ways to dissipate heat,using venturi effect, maybe even harness some energy from the heat that is removed ?
@@MrTeka500 You don't need a solar car for that though.
9:55 When racing in the outback, your car needs temperature level checking.
It can easily go up to 30C or even reach 50C in the extreme dry areas with only desert.
Also, a small air inlet can help by cooling the electronics AND the driver,
and if and when properly placed, it won't cost much. In fact, the lowered need for
things like cooling fans and such, may offset this.
I wish I had a team of Japanese guys follow me around every time my car broke down
Yes, that would be helpful. Especially since all the things they can do in anime.
@@brianisme6498 And still they produce better cars than most usa Car brands🤭
@@brianisme6498 Big Facts!
I can relate
@@Tony_Sab tell em 💯😂
I feel for the Stanford team. That must be crushing
How're you verified?
BRO ARE YOU *THE* KYLE CRAMER?? IM YOUR BIGGEST FAN WHAAAAAAA
How are you verified?
How to be verified wtf
is it weird that it's possible to lose time waiting at a red light in this race...?
I dunno how I feel about this. This was probably the most interesting uninteresting race I've watched not gonna lie hahah
At least it is more interesting than Nascar.
this is great entertainment, "I have started the race, I guess" Stanford
"Michigan doesn't wave."
just when i thought them only mentioning "Japanese team has a beautiful car" was hilarious
I do not understand this solar racing competition doesn't get more media attention. So thank you for posting these videos ✌️✌️✌️😎😎
Solar car racers: "we're saving so much energy by using sunlight!!!"
Also solar car racers: *brings along a convoy of a hundred gas engine vans*
It's a worthwhile trade-off
*They only need the tiniest hole within the very front of the canopy in order to help cool the drivers and to also help eliminate the drag effect from having a much **_larger_** hole! But, even the smallest hole would perform miracles for the poor drivers dying of dehydration!*
That Stanford driver came seconds from being a fatality when the batteries ignited. This is dangerous stuff guys!
I also felt that. I was teary-eyed. That's really sad having your race cut short, but it's a learning opportunity.
Wow, I didn’t expect to have Derek to host a video on Seeker
Damn son
That lithium know how to burn
And why don't they treat the canopies with some sunglass film or something?
should be completely road legal
yeah some tint could block the sun ray better but its clear as a glass 😂
@@mohammadamir4486 Most places it is not legal to tint your front windshield. These solar cars are required to be street legal since they are on open public roads.
They should really give a little more airflow to the drivers. It's better to cost 1% in extra drag from more airflow going into the cockpit and finish the race, rather than not finish the race.
Freedom 41nall some have a full cockpit so maybe just the back half of the cockpit could be tinted
Why don’t they tint the windows heavily for the drivers to help reduce the heat Adds almost no weight to the car.
They have to be street legal, so if they tint the windows they wouldn’t be
Seriously lol
@@Layeredfire They can tint the windows, they can’t tint the windshield, but they can tint the side windows. They could also add a sun strip tinting to the top of the windshield, or they can tint the windshield with a UV reflective film and not break the rules as long as it does not darken the windshield so cops can still see in.
They should paint the inside of the car white.
Why not a one way or two way mirror on all cars i mean dont you hate getting blinded by brights
"Traffic lights played in our favor"
Never thought I would hear that from a race.
half of us would love a team of japanese mechanics following us while we drive through the outback lmao
*Laughs*
True
....well said
I think it's already amazing how Stanford got their car to run considering they're all undergraduates.
Most teams are all undergraduates
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Why does this video have so many dislikes? It's an amazing video.
Now Im no Stanford student but you would think initial start up problems would warrent an inspection to see if anything is wrong. This still could have not stopped the battery problem but interesting how they wouldnt check to see if something was wrong initially.
They could have actually done a check but it was cut out in editing
The Dutch have won this multiple times. And we have barely any sun here lol
They had to learn how to get more power efficiently per square inch of the car, and be more aerodynamic to go further off less sun due to the home climate haha
@@taylorsmith9115 yeah well it worked out well lol
@James Freeze they have tested everything first in the netherlands. at the university. or do you really think they pack everything up go to a warm climate and figure everything out there? no ofc not. you dont have a big brain. you have a very very tiny brain
"Wait this is a veritasium video?"
Gj on the videos! Just wish the other videos weren't premium
I think they will be made free once per week, but I agree that I would like them to be free
Do you say the same on movie trailers? They put effort, time and money into something and all you say is "but I want it for free".
How do you not realize how ungrateful and disrespectful that is?
There is a 1 month free trial for Premium!
It seems insane to me that no one has active cooling
20 kg isnt a lot compared to 500kg for a tesla model 3, passive cooling should work with a better design
Episode 1: They're talking about ''beating the dutch''
Episode 2: The dutch are beating the dutch followed by the dutch and a dutch-speaking team from Belgium.
Go Team Belgium! ☀ 🇧🇪
If I would except anyone beating the Dutch it would be the Belgiums. You are doing really great🤫
Wow that Stanford driver had nuts of steel to stay in the car for that long during a fire but also absolutely zero radio discipline 8:15
So wonderful to watch this race.
I really want to visit Australia some day.
I fly gliders. When waiting for the tow plane with a closed canopy it gets really really really hot. I know how that feels. 5min in this dead still hot air and intense heat can cut your flightperformance in half. Those cars are moving, still very intense!
There are similarities in aerodynamic and weight requirements. South African team NWU, which competed in 2017, based their car body on a JS3 Jonker Sailplane: engineering.nwu.ac.za/solarcar
Funny that Derek from Veritasium is narrating it. I love how he always delivers on his topics, contrary to the normal "might be, could be.. in the future" narrative of Seeker :D
i like the fact that my boys from germany chose *_SONNENWAGEN_* instead of something more lame
haha, that's what I thought. Nobody wanted to interview the team which has the most stupid name.
Why is the name stupid?
@@elontusk8018 Just sounds lame, actually there's nothing wrong with the name. I guess it's just a German inferiority complex because our language is not as cool as English or Italian...or in the video: listen how supercool sounds the Flamish accent. If we Germans talk English we sound like the retarded brother of a James Bond villain.
@@elontusk8018 Im german and it is stupid, its the lamest name you can get because in germany our engineers are nerdy boomers that are far of from reality so they can't imagine a better name then this, if a cool marketing would make it, it should be something like "solarmatic"
@The Prometheus we call that self-irony...seriously, we Germans don't need patriotism, because everybody knows that we are the best! ;)
“Race the Sun” with Halle berry what a classic.
Or race a shadow
Bruh as if you document a race in Australia but still use Farenheit to measure tempereture XD
That’s just mean to hide the fact that this is a premium series until episode three, after viewers have already invested 46 minutes in watching.
Hmmm... 😏
Nothing in life is free
@@sepg5084 from now on..pay to breathe
Proposed rule change: Additional solar panels and batteries are allowed on a separate circuit used only for air conditioning.
This was thrilling, thank you.
Why does this sound like it was filmed in 2009
Wdym?
Is that a bad thing this year?
2009 as in bad quality
Or 2009 as in nostalgia factor
I sense national geographic vibe from this video
Watch "Race the Sun!" guys! You won't regret it! Halle Berry with students joined solar racing! So entertaining movie. :)
It's very popular with solar car teams.
Loved this movie... I was actually lucky enough that my school used to enter a car in this race back in 2000!
This is great content! Thank you.
1:48 someone in the editing booth is having a laugh, is that a V8 engine dubbed in over that car starting off?
the sound designer went way overboard in everyway
I’ve watched enough anime to know the dude at 15:33 called someone an idiot 😂
Or maybe t was said to him
Brilliant content, keep it coming!
Glad to hear Dirk from Veristiblium here!
Smart engineering knowledge and ability to driving fast are two different things.
These cars aren't exactly sports cars, and most driving is on empty roads
Proud of our car on day 1! ;) #REDE
Should have had made an long video... I really liked this race.... thank you seeker...
This is a dream experience.... Teams,you are so lucky..
Hello Guys, when your car is getting heated up I suppose u could have an emergency shutter valve to exhaust excess heat once a critical temp inside the vehicle is reached. After exhausting u can close it so as not to effect aerodynamic properties.All the best for next design.
What an awesome project for an undergrad!
I think what makes the race is the charging times and the angle they put it at to charge the battery when at stops
I put an 80% ceramic tint on my windshield and the heat coming in is highly reduced with not much effect on visibility. Have they never heard of this? Also why do so many of these cars have clear "roofs"?
Michigan doesn't have to wave were literally shaped like a hand, we're always waving at the world 👋
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Facts
I wonder what the thermal management is like in the background i cant imagine them not having a massive amount of r&d on thermal management of the cells, battery and cockpit in consideration.
눈이 슬플것 같은 사나이네요..
Wouldn't something like a mylar reflective section above the driver on the canopy help keep the heat from getting in?
I would imagine the visibility is already poor due to the low profile windshield. So they probably can't afford to block any of it with mylar.
"Keep the heat from getting in" haha this is Australia 🇦🇺 probably in summer. It's going to be scorching hot
@@joebloggs4615 I guess i was thinking it might block some UV and keep the driver from getting heated up directly from the sun.
@@fuehnix i was imagining just a tinted upper part, like a mylar umbralla effect directly above the driver but not affecting forward and side views...
They also have a clear top on their cars. They should make it give some level of shade. Perhaps a different plastic which is resistant to uv? A layer of resistant paint? They essentially have turned their cars into mobile greenhouses.
1er comentario en español!...gran carrera, me gustaría ser parte de esos equipos, estudio ingeniería y la sustentabilidad me motiva.
La verdad no conocía toda esta movida...interesante!!!
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Yo formé parte de uno de los equipos en el 2018 durante la carrera en Sud África. Muy buena experiencia, me encantaría empezar un equipo que represente a España en esta carrera.
"i started the race... i guess..."
5:53 Thank You narrater!! Needs to be a rule or something, one chaser car for emergencies.
The rear escort vehicle has to carry a range of safety equipment.
I can see many of the teams don't understand how insanely hot it gets in the Australian outback. Also the testing and certification procedure seems to be flawed when it comes to catering to these extreme temps. It is very unsafe to have a driver on public roads sitting in a cockpit with poor ventilation at over 45c. Also they should not be allowing high density lithium batteries to be uncooled in such extremes. You are literally sitting on a death trap.
The battery packs are generally air-cooled, with a thermal cutoff. Things can still go wrong, however.
Why not have it in a closed race track.
I knew the Japanese team was in trouble when I saw that ridiculously small air ventilation tube. The other problem is there wasn't even any shade for the drivers head.
I don't understand how they could underestimate the Northern Australia heat problem so badly...
Maybe they're northeners, I imagine if you're a Hokkaido person, anything above 30° is pretty rare.
16:13 is a look of pure bliss
I feel like it probably would've been smarter to stop for that fallen tree and had your team come help and a couple foot gap off the end for the guy to pass. Driver must not be an engineer if he couldn't make that calculation