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At the core of the car,lies a driver compartment which suspiciously resembles the 2013,Cambridge University Eco Racer (CUER) solar racer,sans flattened-tail PV array, tadpole.
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According to Wikipedia (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambri...ity_Eco_Racing) in 2013 it would have been the Evolution.
I'd compare to the earlier 'table top' design of the Endeavor; just turned upside down for downforce. Or, Colani's 'water strider' Bonnevile car upside down.
Instead of 'faster backwards' it's faster upside down.
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Separated at birth from Baby Template?
Instead of putting cells all over the outside, they have a [smaller] flat collector under a convex bubble. If the bubble were thick at the top and thin at the bottom edges, with a good refractive index, it would be a concentrating collector as well.