Australia hosts the 2019 solar powered car race

The 2020 solar powered car race will be held in Australia in October with the participation of 30 teams from 17 countries around the world.

This year, the course of the race has a total length of 3,000 km from the city of Darwin, Northern Australia to the city of Adelaide, South Australia. It is considered the world’s leading event for solar powered cars racing.

According to the organizers, the race is more meaningful when the goals of the Paris Agreement on climate change have been agreed such as:

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  • Reduce global warming
  • Keeping global temperatures not higher than 2 degrees Celsius
  • Lowering emissions and the European enactment of ban
  • Gradual removal of gasoline and diesel cars in the near future.

The defending champion – the Dutch team of Nuon Solar, continues to be the number one candidate for the championship.

As host country, Australia has 3 teams participating in the race, these teams are from University of Adelaide, Flinder University, University of New South Wales and University of Western Sydney.

Along with the race, solar-powered cars are designed to be able to carry passengers with 23 teams from 13 countries.

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Both events begin in Darwin on October 13-20 and the fastest cars are expected to finish in Adelaide in about 4 days.

A solar-powered race to introduce new technology could help develop into a commercial vehicle in the future. This year’s race involved 40 uniquely designed cars with speeds of 90-100km / h. The race is expected to take place within 1 week.

The serious candidate of the race is the world’s first 4-seat solar car named Stella Lux of the Eidenhoven team from the Netherlands.

The car can carry passengers and is capable of generating more energy than the energy used. The average speed of this car recorded in the previous race is 90.6 km / h.

Cyprus organizes a racing event that runs on solar energy

Experts say the potential to develop solar powered cars in Cyprus is quite large when the country has 320 sunny days a year.

The 3-hour “Cyprus Institute Solar Car Challenge” for solar powered cars took place on June 23 in Cyprus’s Nicosia. They have been promoting the eco-friendliness of the cars participating in this race.

16-year-old Venetia Chrysostomide was one of the participants in the race with a car worth 5,000 EUR. According to Venetia Chrysostomide, solar-powered cars can help Cyprus reduce fuel consumption and air pollution.

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The race organizer, Aristides Bonanos, of the Cyprus Institute research center said the participants of the race invested an average of only 8,000 EUR for their cars.

This figure is quite modest compared to the hundreds of thousands of EUR spent on cars participating in the world’s largest solar powered car race in Australia with a length of 3,000 km called the World Solar Challenge.

According to Bonanos, the goal of the race is to help the public in Cyprus realize that making solar-powered cars is relatively easy and low-cost.

This is an ambitious goal in Cyprus – one of the countries with the highest car ownership rate in Europe with 595 cars for 1,000 people (according to the European Statistical Office – Eurostat).

Experts say the potential to develop solar powered cars in Cyprus is quite large when the country has 320 sunny days a year.

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Meanwhile, 2016 statistics show that of the 28,000 newly registered cars in Cyprus, only 22 run on renewable energy.

In addition, Zephyr operates entirely on solar energy. This unmanned aircraft weighs only about 75kg thanks to being made from carbon fiber.

Zephyr “absorbs” solar energy through energy panels installed throughout the wingspan up to 25 meters, thereby extending the flight time of the flight on the stratosphere.

The Zephyr project is also aiming to bring potential solutions for disaster management, monitoring and communication.