South African Solar Race

South African Solar Challenge

South African Solar Race

The race will start tomorrow on 24 September and will last for 8 days over a distance of 2000 km. The race will start in Pretoria and will end in Cape Town.

The race is for students who design and build the cars. The race is designed to increase interest in science, technology, engineering and maths. In this way students get the opportunity to translate the theory they have learned in the classroom into practice.

Various international teams will take part in the race as well as as two South African high school teams who will use old cars from previous races and two private non university South African teams

Below is pictures of the cars and the teams that will take part, I hope to update the progress of teams daily.

All images below is from the link under image credit, and the Info comes from the same website

Image Credit

Anadolu team from Turkey

DSJ team from South Africa

GAMF from Hungary

Lodz Solar Team from Poland

Maragon Solar Eagles from South Africa

MUT Solar Team from South Africa, no image

Near East University ?(NEU) from Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus

Nuon from the Netherlands

NWU from South Africa

PI 21 Solar Team from South Africa

Tokai University from Japan

TUT University from South Africa

UJ from South Africa

ZinCO Electric Vehicle from South Africa

As an air cooled VW nut, I like this old school car and it will be interesting to see if this full size 4 seater car will be able to complete the race.

Thank you for reading, I hope you have enjoyed it