The South Africa Solar Challenge 2008 is a 4,175km race in South Africa. The South Africa Solar Challenge 2008 is sanctioned by the FIA, South African Government and is a registered event with Motorsport South Africa and the International Solarcar Federation. The event winners will be issued with championship point, towards the World First World Ranking of Solar Cars.
The South African Solar Challenge 2008 is an epic, two-week race in solar-powered cars through the length and breadth of South Africa. Teams will have to build their own cars, design their own engineering systems and race those same machines through the most demanding terrain that solar cars have ever seen.
On 28 September 2008, more than 40 cars of strange shapes and designs will take off from Johannesburg and make their way to Cape Town, then drive along the coast to Durban, before climbing the steep Drakensburg Mountains on their way back to the finish line in Johannesburg two weeks later.
The Advanced Energy Foundation (AEF) is a registered Section 21 company (non-profit organization). The main objective of the foundation is to promote, initiate and run programs and initiatives that advance technological development in transportation and energy management. The primary event on the calendar of AEF is to run the South African Solar Challenge, agreements are currently in place for this to be done for 2008, 2010 and 2012. Excess funds raised will be used in the provision of Grants and Bursaries through the AEF.
After returning from working on the World Solar Challenge (www.wsc.org.za) in Australia, we now have a much better understanding of the event, the participants and also how to correctly take the technology from car, into the communities.
To find out more information visit South Africa Solar Challenge’s website.
Photos of the Jaycar Sunswift.
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