Dutch team wins Solar Challenge Morocco 2021

Dutch team wins Solar Challenge Morocco 2021
Photo: Twitter @solarteamtwente
Saturday 30 October 2021 - 13:03

The Netherlands won the first prize of the Solar Challenge Morocco 2021, a race for solar cars, which took place in Agadir starting Monday.

This edition of the Solar Challenge Rally brought together students from diverse parts of Europe, including Estonia, Sweden, Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, in addition to the host country, Morocco.

The second place went to the Belgian Solar team who was able to pull out all the stops during the last stage.

As for the third place, it went to another team from the Netherlands.

Solar Challenge Morocco 2021 is a competition organized by Classic Events agency in collaboration with the Solar Energy and New Energies Research statute (IRESEN) and with the support of the Souss-Massa Regional Investment Centre (CRI/SM)

Young and ambitious participants drove their solar vehicles built according to the rules of the Bridgestone World Solar Challenge to travel 2,500 kilometers divided into five stages, from the asphalt roads of Agadir to the magnificent Atlas Mountains and bivouacs of the Merzouga desert.

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