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A Carbon Fiber Cage: The Aerodynamic Toll on the Pilot
Under the Sun, Inside the Cockpit: A Pilot’s Trial When you look at a solar car from the outside, what you see is aerodynamic perfection, the mathematical arrangement of solar panels, and sharp lines designed to pierce the wind. As the ITU Solar Car Team , our months in the workshop are often spent calculating efficiency coefficients and optimizing battery cycles. However, at that critical point where all these equations are solved and theory turns into practice, there is a v
Apr 122 min read


The Silent Hero of Autonomous Vehicles
Autonomous vehicle technology is no longer the exclusive domain of the R&D departments of giant automotive brands. University teams are...
Apr 16, 20253 min read


Embedded Systems and PCB Design
The Embedded Systems Group of our team works on the design, assembly, and software integration of low-voltage circuit boards in our...
Mar 19, 20252 min read


The Future of Clean Transportation
Sustainable transportation solutions are becoming increasingly important today. Electric vehicles (EVs) and solar-powered vehicles...
Mar 6, 20253 min read


THE HYBRID DRIVING MODEL OF THE FUTURE
How did we design our autonomous vehicle to be both autonomous and self-driving? As autonomous vehicles play an increasingly large part...
Feb 17, 20254 min read


PROJECT MANAGEMENT
ITU ZES Solar Car Team is a well-established Solar Car project team and with this qualified, professional structure, it has achieved many...
Feb 4, 20255 min read


Energy Efficiency and Solar Cars: The Sustainable Transport Solution of the Future
Energy efficiency is a concept that provides both economic and environmental benefits by using existing energy resources more...
Jan 8, 20255 min read


A Guide to Aerodynamic Excellence
Founded in 2004, the ITU ZES Solar Car Team has produced a total of 12 vehicles over the past 20 years, including 10 solar cars and 2...
Dec 16, 20242 min read


A New Adventure: Shell Eco-marathon Autonomous Urban Concept Competition 2025
As the ITU ZES Solar Car Team, we have been producing Solar Cars and Autonomous Vehicles for 20 years in order to represent Istanbul...
Dec 2, 20243 min read
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