CLASSES
Solar car teams can enter the challenge in one of three classes, each with different rules and objectives:
About Us
The South African Sasol Solar Challenge is a biennial competition that strives to be the ultimate test of technology and innovation. Local and international teams conceptualise, design and build solar-powered vehicles to drive across South Africa in an eight-day event while competing against each other, demonstrating and showcasing their design, manufacturing, and strategy skills.
Solar Challenge
The Sasol Solar Challenge is South Africa’s biennial competition for talented engineering teams from around the world to challenge each other to cover as much distance as possible as they travel on public roads from Johannesburg to Cape Town.
The eight-day event traditionally spans more than 2 500 km, with local and international teams putting newly developed technology to the test as they pass through SA towns.
The Basics
This tough competition proves challenging for even the best international solar teams. Each day, solar cars and their support vehicles traverse a route of 250 – 300 km. There are three major stops on each stage: the start line – the control stop – and the finish line.
START LINE
Solar teams set off in convoys, crossing the start line in the same order they finished the previous day’s stage.
CONTROL STOPS AND LOOPS
Each of the eight daily routes will require a 30-minute compulsory control stop at a set location between the start and finish lines.
FINISH LINE
Each day-long stage of the eight-day challenge ends at 17h00, when all teams have to have their solar cars parked in the “parc fermé” paddock
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Partners
The Sasol Solar Challenge would not be possible without the valuable contributions from our partners. If you’d like to become a partner to the event, please contact us at manager@solarevents.co.za
