A solar car is essentially an electric car but powered by the sun instead of the grid. Cars that Solar Team Twente has been building require a lot of electrical know how and skill to realize. One does not simply design a complete car. To get a grasp of what an electrical engineer does on a team like this a single design factor will be discussed. One that has influence on basically the complete design of the electrical system. ...

In the last edition of ‘Icons of Electrical Engineering’ we met Richard Feynman (See Vonk 37-3). Among other things, he is famous for the creation of ‘The Feynman Lectures on Physics’ which are commonly used to lecture students on a wide variety of physics subjects including electrodynamics. As you all (will/should become to) know, electrodynamics can be described by the four Maxwell equations. However, James Clerk Maxwell derived a total of 20 equations with 20 unknowns to describe this part of physics. ...

Electric Superbike Twente is a student team consisting of 15 enthusiastic people that work on building an electric superbike. The team was founded in 2017, which makes us still a very young team. This year we will build the third generation bike. The first bike, the Liion-GP, became the European Champion in the Electric Championship and of course we aim to match this result! The vision of Electric Superbike Twente is to show that electric mobility is not only sustainable but also lightning fast and spectacular. ...

Goedemorgen Zonnestraaltjes, Good morning Sunrays, Firstly, I would like to wish all of you a happy new year! I hope you had a great ending of this decade and are ready for the new one. In this new decade it is time for another presidential note. The start of a new year is usually not easy. You probably did not have a lot of sleep after a fun ending of the year and may have a little too many drinks last night to have a fresh start of the year. ...

Green Team Twente is a student team that builds one of the world’s most fuel-efficient hydrogen cars. Each year, we participate in the Shell Eco-Marathon (SEM) Europe. Which is a race between teams from different schools and universities where the most efficient car wins. This year, we did not only win the SEM Europe, but also the Drivers’ World Championship. In this race, teams from all over the world, with different energy type cars, compete to see who can drive the fastest. ...

One of the articles in the last Vonk, not accidentaly titled ‘The Last Vonk’, made a glance over 37 years of Vonk history. It would be possible to do the same for this platform, but that would make no sense as we are only getting started! Perhaps you crave more original Vonk content, perhaps you just want to check out this new website. We are glad you made it, one way or another. ...