Seventy UTCN students prepare two solar vehicles for Belgium

Informat.ro, citing Antena 3, writes that a group of 70 students from the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca is working on two vehicles powered only by solar energy, ahead of an international endurance race. The brief presents the project as a test bed for technologies that could make transport cleaner, in cities in particular.

The first vehicle is the racing model. Informat.ro gives it a top speed of 120 km/h, 6 square metres of solar panels and a 3 kWh battery. It also says the vehicle travelled 3,000 km in Australia last year on solar energy alone. The official result is different: Hyperion was 18th of 26 in the Challenger class and last reached the Port Augusta control stop, about 2,700 km from Darwin.

The second vehicle is a two-seat urban prototype. According to the brief, it can reach 60 km/h and has a range of 250 km, figures that do not appear in other coverage. Informat.ro does not name it; it is Voyager Origin, the team's Cruiser. The team was to race in Belgium alongside 30 other teams from around the world, the brief says.