Team Sonnenwagen Aachen

Watch our documentary ’Sonnenwagen - Future Mobility’ in English! ☀️

Merry Christmas! Our team sends you warm wishes from the workshop and hopes you enjoy the holiday season with your family, friends and loved ones🎄

Innovation trifft Nachhaltigkeit: Bei meinem Standort-Besuch in Brunsbüttel bekam ich mal Gelegenheit zu einem etwas außergewöhnlichen Termin für einen Chief Technology Officer: Ich durfte im aktuellen Sonnenwagen-Modell Platz nehmen und mich mit dem engagierten Team Team Sonnenwagen Aachen austauschen. Was für eine tolle Möglichkeit! Die talentierten Studierenden der RWTH Aachen und FH Aachen zeigen eindrucksvoll, wie Innovation und Nachhaltigkeit Hand in Hand gehen können. Mit ihrem Solarauto Adelie demonstrieren sie nicht nur technisches Know-how. Sie zeigen auch, wie junge, kreative Köpfe unsere Mobilität der Zukunft gestalten können. Als Technologievorstand von Covestro bin ich stolz darauf, dass wir dieses außergewöhnliche Projekt als Hauptsponsor unterstützen. Unser Beitrag geht dabei weit über finanzielles Sponsoring hinaus: Wir stellen innovative Materiallösungen bereit und steuern Expertenwissen bei. Die Sonnenwagen-Tour führt Adelie derzeit zu Standorten von Covestro in ganz Europa. Die Kolleginnen und Kollegen in Brunsbüttel waren begeistert von dem Besuch der Studierenden und das Interesse an dem Team und seinem Solarauto war überwältigend. Projekte wie der Sonnenwagen inspirieren uns bei Covestro, weiter an nachhaltigen Lösungen zu arbeiten und die Kreislaufwirtschaft voranzutreiben. Sie zeigen, dass mit Kreativität, Engagement und den richtigen Partnerschaften eine nachhaltigere Zukunft möglich ist. Ich bin gespannt, welche Innovationen das Team Sonnenwagen in Zukunft noch hervorbringen wird. Gemeinsam gestalten wir die Mobilität von morgen! #Innovation #Nachhaltigkeit #Sonnenwagen #Covestro #ZukunftderMobilität

Last Thursday, we had the pleasure of welcoming the Sonnenwagen to our site in Brunsbüttel, Germany, as part of Team Sonnenwagen Aachen's tour. A memorable photo with our apprentices truly captured the energy and excitement of the day, a fantastic highlight for everyone involved! Thank you for joining our Solar Joruney! ☀

Our Chief Commercial Officer Sucheta Govil visited the Team Sonnenwagen Aachen at the Zolder racetrack to experience their innovative spirit first-hand. 🌞🚗 Her admiration for the team's commitment and passion was evident, as she shared inspiring words on the impact their work has made on her. 👇Watch the video to see why this project resonates so deeply with her and how it aligns with future mobility goals and our vision for a sustainable future.  

Our Covestro Sonnenwagen is on tour! 🗺 Together with the Team Sonnenwagen Aachen, we kicked off the #Sonnenwagen Europe Tour at our site in Antwerp last week. Since then, the solar-powered racer has been on the move visiting our Covestro sites across Europe and showing how sustainable mobility is made possible through our materials 💪💚 🌍 Stay tuned as we take you along on the journey. Next stop: Tarragona! 🇪🇸 Take a closer look on our impressions from the fantastic kickoff in Antwerp 👇 A big thank you to all the colleagues who joined us on site 🙏 #FutureMobility #SonnenwagenOnTour #SolarJourney

Today, "Die Sendung mit der Maus" and 20 children visited us at our workspace in Aachen. Many of us grew up watching this science TV show, so we were thrilled to have the Maus visit us and make a childhood dream come true. A big thank you to the Maus, the WDR, and especially to all the children for your curious questions. We hope that some of you will become future Team Sonnenwagen members and continue shaping the future of mobility! You can already watch a short clip of the Maus visiting us in the ARD Mediathek. The link is shared in the comments below.

We’ve completed the iLumen European Solar Challenge 2024! After 24 hours of smooth racing with no issues, we secured second and third place🥈🥉 We’re incredibly proud of our performance, especially since we didn’t have to make any unplanned stops and were able to follow our strategy throughout the entire race. Our new team worked together flawlessly, and this experience has made us even more excited for the next Bridgestone World Solar Challenge in 2025🏁 We also want to take a moment to congratulate Innoptus, the Belgian team, not only for winning today’s race but for achieving the triple crown by winning all three major solar car races in a row. We’re already looking forward to competing with you again next year at the Bridgestone World Solar Challenge! Last but not least, we want to congratulate Solarcar SFZ-Friedrichshafen, a German team full of innovative young minds who are still in school. We are so impressed with your performance at your first race! Keep up the amazing work and stay motivated to shape the future of mobility, because that’s what the iLumen European Solar Challenge and our project is all about☀️

With a classic Le Mans start, where all drivers enter their cars simultaneously, we smoothly kicked off the race. Every two hours, our drivers will switch until the race concludes tomorrow at 1 pm. The team that completes the most laps by then will be crowned European Champion. Since no solar energy can be harvested during the night, each team is allowed up to three battery charges, making strategic planning crucial for success. We are excited for the next hours to come!

Today is a big day for us! Not only does the 24-hour race kick off, but we’re also celebrating our birthday—Team Sonnenwagen Aachen turns nine! It all started in 2015 when a group of students, inspired by a documentary about the Bridgestone World Solar Challenge, decided to take part in the race. In 2017, we made our debut, and since then, we’ve competed two more times. Our biggest achievement so far came in 2022, when we won the iLumen European Solar Challenge. Now we’re back, ready to defend our title as European Champions!