Irrespective of what is the approach of individual business leaders, the whole industry is going at a rapid pace to adapt to the "biggest industrial revolution in the history of mankind".

The competing solar-powered cars are built by some of the brightest young minds on the planet. Student teams from all over the world, push the limits of technological innovation by engineering and building a vehicle with their own hands, powered only by the sun. The competition is designed to promote research on solar-powered cars.

Known for its luxury sports cars, which have become an automotive industry standard for speed and performance, Ferrari is also known for its success in Gran Turismo (GT) racing.

Pollution and fuel consumption are the most important features of thermal engines that must be drastically improved in the coming years. In order to achieve this, all consuming parts of cars are being meticulously analyzed to try and decrease losses to the maximum through design improvements, while taking into account inherent negative effects such as condensation issues for the compressor.

The CFD project used over 1,150 compute cores to run detailed simulations comprising of over 550 million data points that model the impact of one car’s aerodynamic wake on another.