Hyperion is 15th after the first two days in Australia
Northern Territory, Australia, Bridgestone World Solar Challenge 2025
Read the original article Observator, in Romanian
Observator reports that 23 students and two academic staff from UTCN are taking part in the Bridgestone World Solar Challenge 2025, and notes that the SOLIS team is part of the Dan Voiculescu Foundation's 2025 campaign “100 de tineri pentru dezvoltarea României”. The race runs from 24 to 31 August over 3,020 km from Darwin to Adelaide, with driving allowed only between 08:00 and 17:00.
“We are a small team measuring ourselves against the world's giants, but that is exactly what motivates us.”
SOLIS team members
Romania races in the Challenger class for single-occupant vehicles, under limits of 6 square metres of solar panels and a 3 kWh battery. Hyperion, the most advanced vehicle SOLIS UTCN has built, passed 100 km/h in early tests. The first part of the team arrived on 9 August and the rest on 16 August. Technical checks followed on 18 August, and on 23 August Hyperion qualified 20th with 2:23:37.
After the start in front of Parliament in Darwin on 24 August, drivers Raymond Nemeth and Paul Groza covered 495 km on day one, through the Katherine control stop. Day two added 552 km through Dunmarra and Tennant Creek at 70 km/h, leaving the team 15th, 1,060 km from Darwin. The team tells Observator it is a small team measuring itself against the world's giants.
Summary written by the Solis team from the article published by Observator on 27 August 2025. The original: “Echipa SOLIS scrie istorie la cea mai prestigioasă competiție de mașini solare din lume din Australia”
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