The Belgian team has once again won the Solar Challenge, the unofficial world championship for solar cars, in Australia.
Students from KU Leuven crossed the finish line first in Adelaide on Thursday. “I’m very proud,” Professor Bart Vermang of UHasselt, who contributed to the team’s success, told Belga News Agency on the sidelines of the Belgian economic mission to Australia.
KU Leuven’s industrial engineering students, the ‘Innoptus Solar Team,’ started on Thursday morning 39 kilometers ahead of their closest pursuers, students from Twente in the Netherlands.
They finally crossed the finish line at 10:44 local time (01:44 in Belgium) with their ‘Infinite’ car. Their average speed was around 88 kilometers per hour. The Dutch team from Twente arrived some 20 minutes later.
The participants had begun their 3,021-kilometer journey in Darwin, in the north of the country, on the previous Sunday.
The Belgian team also won the previous edition of the race in 2019.
