Blue Sky Solar Racing

Founded in 1997, the University of Toronto Blue Sky Solar Racing team is a student-led design team that has designed, built and raced solar powered vehicles for over 25 years. Now a team of over 60 diverse, talented students, Blue Sky Solar Racing continues to help push the limits of sustainable technologies while fostering and training a new generation of innovators, engineers and leaders against the rising tide of environmental challenges.

Designed to maximize efficiency, solar racing is a precise balance between many intertwined factors like material weight, solar cell chemistry and telemetry systems. As a result, the process is long and challenging, with each vehicle undergoing two years of rigorous research, drafting, simulations and validations before it is finally ready to race in competitions across the world. The end result is well worth it: a finely-tuned, high-performance machine, weighing less than a little over 200 kilograms and capable of reaching top speeds of over 100 kph - all running entirely on solar energy.

Blue Sky Solar Racing’s latest vehicle, Borealis, recently competed in the Bridgestone World Solar Challenge 2023, marking the end of the 2019-2023 design cycle. The double-curved bullet-style aerobody and electrical system developed and installed completely in-house are just some of the advanced design features that makes Borealis one of our most ambitious cars yet.