Students recently gained experience with solar technology and EVs by building a charging station for one of the school's vehicles which is used to deliver food and reduce food waste.
Students at University of Illinois Chicago recently gained experience with solar technology and EVs by building a charging station for one of the school’s vehicles which is used to deliver food and reduce food waste. The little car even has a name: Gemma, but we’ll get to why that is in a minute.
In other words, the station wasn’t just some quick job like I’d do using parts from Amazon and slapping some panels up. The student team members are all engineering students, three seeking a degree in Mechanical Engineering and one in biomedical engineering. They made sure that the 300 watt solar panel gives the full 300 watts as much as possible. They went beyond just tracking the sun every day, but also set up tilt settings to wring every last electron out of the sun every single month.
It isn’t a Tesla, but Gemma still does important work around the UIC campus and beyond. GEMs are street legal, and can go normal street speeds . UIC’s Food Recovery Network collects up leftover food from campus dining halls and other locations, loads the food up in Gemma, and then delivers it to homeless shelters and food kitchens around Chicago. This not only feeds the hungry, but also lowers the city’s carbon emissions from cooking..
While competent engineering students had no problem coming up with a good design and selecting components, they did face a challenge that threw everyone for a loop: the pandemic. The charging station was originally going to be mounted on a trailer, but the trailer never came after supply chain issues shut their suppliers down.
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