Solis releases a documentary about Hyperion in Australia
Cluj-Napoca, Release of the documentary “Hyperion: The Journey Across Australia”
Read the original article Știri de Cluj, in Romanian
Știri de Cluj reports that Solis UTCN has officially released a documentary, “Hyperion: The Journey Across Australia”, about its campaign at the Bridgestone World Solar Challenge 2025. The article presents the team as a project of students and professors from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and the Faculty of Industrial Engineering, Robotics and Production Management.
It traces the project from Professor Ștefan Breban's first ideas in 2012 to the first vehicle in 2021. Hyperion races in the Challenger class, for single-seat vehicles built for efficiency and speed. The race runs from Darwin to Adelaide, about 3,000 km, and the teams camp in the desert overnight.
The article retells the first days of the 2025 race. Static scrutineering began on 18 August; on 23 August the vehicle qualified with 2:23:37, 20th on the grid. After the start on 24 August in front of Parliament in Darwin, Hyperion covered 495 km in about eight hours on day one and 552 km on day two, at about 70 km/h. After two days the team was 15th in the Challenger class, with 1,060 km covered.
According to Știri de Cluj, the film gives a close portrait of the technical problems, the team's emotions and the decisions taken at every step. The team says it is a film about the people as much as the race: about how students from different faculties, their professors and their supporters in Cluj-Napoca worked together.
Summary written by the Solis team from the article published by Știri de Cluj on 24 November 2025. The original: “Studenții UTCN lansează filmul „Hyperion: The Journey Across Australia”, după participarea la prestigioasa competiție Bridgestone World Solar Challenge”
About: Bridgestone World Solar Challenge 2025, Hyperion
