The South African Solar Challenge 2010 is an epic, two-week race in solar-powered cars through the length and breadth of South Africa. Teams will have to build their own cars, design their own engineering systems and race those same machines through the most demanding terrain that solar cars have ever seen.  The race is from the 23th September 2010 to the 2th October 2010, all teams need to be in South Africa before the 20th September 2010.

The teams will includes a mixture of local and international teams from across the world, who will compete in various classes, for prizes, prestige and experience.

Each team must put their vehicle through grueling qualifying and technical inspections. Teams that fail to meet the requirements will not participate. During the race, each team is escorted by their support team and the vehicle

The South African Solar Challenge (SASC) is a competition designed to drive and provide education in innovation and business.  The event is managed by the Advanced Energy Foundation. The primary objective is to design, manage, build and race solar powered vehicle across South Africa. The challenge sees a collaboration between scholars, students, private individuals and various industry and government partners, to work together to have a safe, technology rich event.

• Renewable energy technologies (specifically photo voltaic or “solar cells”)
• Educational excellence in science, engineering and mathematics
• Creative integration of technical and scientific expertise across a wide-range of disciplines Understanding of marketing, business and management skills needed to execute large and complex projects
• “Hands-on” experience for students and engineers to develop and demonstrate their technical and creative abilities
• Environmental consciousness
• Safety in all aspects of the challenge, development, testing and racing. Sportsmanship, friendship and co-operation