Solar Car Rally in NOTO

1.Solar car rally in Noto 1992

Date *1)
August 22nd-30th 1992
August 22nd-29th maintenance and inspection
August 30th rally race

Place
Ishikawa Prefecture Noto peninsula

Organizer
Grandeur Solar Challenge Promotion Conference *2)

Race
Shuttl Race
The vehicles shuttled on the Noto Tollway after turn once round the special circuit course.
The length of the course is about 60km.

Circuit Race
The special circuit was composed of The Nagisa Drive Way (sands beach way) and Noto Tollways.
The length of the truck is about 11km.

Participates
50 vehicles for the circuit race.
52 vehicles for the shuttl race
8 vehicles participated from foreign countries. *1)*4)

link Noto_Participates_e.xls

Class
Body size of vehicles were conformed to WSC.
Category I limited :
The output power of the solar panel must be up to 800wp.
Lead acid battely to be used
Category I free I:
The area of the solar panel must be up to 8 square meters.
Any kind of battely usable, but less than 2 kwh.
Category I free II:
Two persons getting on car.
Category II:
Two persons getting on car.
Four-wheel car, no limitation.
Results
Shuttl Race
Champ Honda "Dream" *3)*13)
2nd Kyocera A "SCV-2" *13)*14)
3rd PFU "SOFIX II" or "SOFIX III"*13)
4th unknown
5th Nissan "Sun Faver" *13)
28th Team Dora-emon "Solar-emon" *13)
Circuit Race
Champ TOYOTA "RaRa 10"
2nd Ingenieurschule Biel "Spilits of Biel - Bienne II"
3rd Kansai Electric Power Company Shogawa Office "Nyanda Solar"
4th unknown
5th (Special Award)Chubu Electric Power Company SEKI Office Solars "YUYU"

Ishikawa Prefectural Industrial High School was the first place in student class.
150,000 people watched the race.

2.Solar Car Rally in Noto 1996

Date *6)
August 21st-22nd 1996 maintenance
August 21st-23rd 1996 inspection
August 24th rally race

Place
Ishikawa Prefecture Noto peninsula

Organizer
Ishikawa Prefecture
Ishikawa Prefecture Grand Solar Challenge Executive Committee *2)

Support
Hokuriku Industrial Activation Center *2)

Race *6)*7)
Circuit Race
The special circuit "The Nagisa Drive Way" (sands beach way).
(The use of the public road was not permitted.)
Student Class : For two hours race in the morning
Open Class : For two hours race in the afternoon

Participates
59 vehicles participated from Japan
10 vehicles participated from foreign 7 countries. total 69 vehicles *1)
14 teams participated from Ishikawa prefecture. *8)
22 teams participated from three prefectures in Hokuriku. *8)
Link Noto_Participates_e.xls

Class
Student Class
Open Class
Details are uncertain.

Results
Georg Washington University won the championship in Open Class. *2)
Wakamatsu Daiichi High School was the first place in student class. *2)
Kansai University Wingle III Student Class 10th,Junior Class 5th *7)

"Grand Solar Challenge Promotion Conference" (GSCPC) was established by the guidance of the Ministry of International Trade and Industry in August, 1990. "Grand Solar Challenge" (GSC) was a large scale campaign to aim at the enlightenment of global environmental concerns and energy problems. The member of GSC was various groups related to the electric machine and the electric power, Hokuriku Economic Federation, Hokuriku Industrial Activation Centers, Ishikawa Prefecture, Toyama Prefecture, and Fukui Prefecture, etc.*2)

The Contents of GSC was as follows.
Solar energy caravan I
･The first term(1991.08.20-1991.11.03: 27 places in Japan)
･Latter term(1992.04.11-1992.08.29: 10 places in Japan)
Solar Energy International Forum 1991.09.23-1992.07.09.
(six places in Japan).
Solar Boat Race in Mikata Five Lakes
(1992.08.23: Fukui Prefecture Mikata Five Lakes)
Solar Festival in Kanazawa
(1992.08.22: Kanazawa city)
Solar Car Rally in Noto
(1992.08.30: Ishikawa Prefecture Noto peninsula)
Solar Energy International Symposium
(1992.09.05-06: Kanazawa city)

The GSC Promotion Conference dissolved in January 1993. GSC Succession Committee was established in November 1994. The GSC Succession Committee held the following events.

Grand Solar Challenge International Conference in October 1995.
(Sharp Makuhari building, Chiba Prefecture Makuhari)
Solar car rally Inn Noto '96

All the events by GSC Succession Committee were finished in 1996.

Grand Solar Challenge Promotion Conference
Link Grand_Solar_Challenge_je.xls