After two days and 1,060 km, Solis camps at Dilburry

Business Review reports that the Solis team, 23 students and two professors from UTCN with a representative of the Romanian Auto Registry, is racing at the 2025 Bridgestone World Solar Challenge. The route runs 3,020 km from Darwin to Adelaide, from 24 to 31 August, and teams may drive only between 08:00 and 17:00 before camping for the night.

Hyperion, the most advanced vehicle the team has built, has reached more than 100 km/h. It races in the Challenger class for single-occupant vehicles, under the 2025 limits of 6 square metres of solar panels and a 3 kWh battery. A first group of 15 team members reached Darwin on 9 August and the rest followed on 16 August.

Static scrutineering began on 18 August, and on 23 August Hyperion passed the dynamic test, qualifying 20th with 2:23:37. It started on 24 August in front of Parliament House in Darwin. On day one, drivers Raymond Nemeth and Paul Groza covered 495 km in eight hours, through the Katherine control stop.

On day two the vehicle added 552 km through Dunmarra and Tennant Creek at 70 km/h. After two days the team was 15th, 1,060 km from Darwin, and spent the night at the Dilburry Freestay Camping Zone, still fine-tuning the vehicle for the next stage.