Nuna 3

The team at the race course of Zandvoort

The Nuna 3 is a solar car developed by Nuon Solar Team form the Delft University of Technology in 2004-2005 for the 2005 World Solar Challenge.

It succeeded the Nuna2, the solar car that scored a second consecutive win for this solar team by winning the World Solar Challenge for the third time in a row.

Nuna 3 was one of the favourites for the 2005 edition of the World Solar Challenge with a pre-race test-drive recorded top speed of 130 km/h. The final result was that the 3021 kilometers between Darwin and Adelaide were covered in a record 29 hours and 11 minutes, averaging about 103 km/h.

It has very efficient solar cells of a type normally used to power orbital satellites^[1] (as had the previous Nunas), and it has better aerodynamics and is lighter than its predecessors.^{[citation needed]}

It was designed and built by 11 students from different disciplines of the Delft University of Technology, who have partly put their studies on hold for this. They used the high-tech labs and workshops of the University and, as with the Nuna 2, they received advice^{[citation needed]} from Wubbo Ockels, the first Dutch astronaut and professor at the University.

^ Gaddy, E.M. (1996). "Cost performance of multi-junction, gallium arsenide, and silicon solar cells on spacecraft". Conference Record of the Twenty Fifth IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference - 1996. pp. 293–296. doi:10.1109/PVSC.1996.564003. ISBN 0-7803-3166-4. S2CID 121566331.

[1] Gaddy, E.M. (1996). "Cost performance of multi-junction, gallium arsenide, and silicon solar cells on spacecraft". Conference Record of the Twenty Fifth IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference - 1996. pp. 293–296. doi:10.1109/PVSC.1996.564003. ISBN 0-7803-3166-4. S2CID 121566331.

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