Solar Challenge Morocco
2021
Live status.
100 %
Challenge completed
2453 km
Distance traveled
5th
current position
5409 m
Elevation Meter Completed
Standings.
RED Horizon | Twente Solar Team
BluePoint Atlas | Agoria Solar Team
Nuna 11 | Vattenfall Solar Team
Green Spirit | Top Dutch Solar Racing
Covestro Photon | Team Sonnenwagen Aachen
Sköll | Chalmers Solar Team
Follow us in the Race with our Daily V-Logs
Episode 1: Qualifying
Episode 2: The first race day
Episode 3: The longest route
Episode 4: Through the beautiful Sahara Desert
Episode 5: Setbacks
Episode 6: The Finish
The Challenge.
The Solar Challgenge Morocco is a long-distance efficiency race over 2500 km at the foot of the Atlas Mountains and through the outskirts of the Sahara Desert. In five stages from Agadir through Zagora, Merzouga, Ouazazarte and back to Agadir, seven of the best solar teams in the world compete to cover the distance as the fastest using only the energy of the sun.
The Challenge was created after the World Sollar Challenge was cancelled in early 2021 due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Together with the participating teams from the Netherlands, Belgium and Sweden, we created the Challenge in Morocco with the Dutch rally organizer Classic Events.
Morocco is a completely new challenge for us as a team. Not least the hectic traffic in the cities, the demanding mountain passages and natural spectacles of the Sahara demand everything from the Covestro Photon and the team.
Stay tuned for an exciting Challenge.
The facts.
7
Teams
5
Days
2500 km
Distance
Preparations and test runs
7. - 21. Oktober 2021
Scrutineering and Qualifying
22 - 24. Oktober 2021
Event Start
25. Oktober 2021
Finish and Ceremony
29. Oktober 2021
The route.
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Stage 1. Agadir to Zagora
25. Oktober 2021
Distance: 475 km
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Stage 2: Zagora to Merzouga
26. Oktober 2021
Distance: 551 km
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Stage 3: Merzouga to Merzouga
27. Oktober 2021
Distance: 523 km
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Stage 4: Merzouga to Zagora
28. Oktober 2021
Distance: 447 km
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Stage 5: Zagora to Agadir
29. Oktober 2021
Distance: 456 km
The Competition.
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Covestro Photon
Team Sonnenwagen Aachen
Germany -
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BluePoint Atlas
Agoria Solar Team
Belgium
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Nuna 11
Vattenfall Solar Team
Netherlands
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RED Horizon
Twente Solar Team
Netherlands
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Green Spirit
Top Dutch Solar Racing
Netherlands
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Sköll
Chalmers Solar Team
Sweden
The Regulations.
Regulations of Solar Challenge Morocco are based on the regulations of the Bridgestone World Solar Challenge 2021. This year, the biannual championship in Australia was cancelled due to the corona pandemic. Nonetheless, we built the Covestro Photon to compete in an alternative Solar Challenge, which became the Solar Challenge Morocco 2021.
The regulations of the 2021 edition have been changed a lot compared to the regulations of the race in 2019. The highly efficient Gallium-arsenide solar cells, for example, aren’t allowed anymore, making the maximum solar cells surface shift from 2.64 m² to 4 m². Additionally, three-wheeled vehicles are allowed again, creating more room for different concepts.
Watch Chris Selwood, Event Director of the World Solar Challenge, explain the major changes of the 2021 regulations.
“Our event thrives on the optimism and ingenuity of the students who take part. The importance of refining electric vehicles and their associated technologies has never been greater – and we want to honour everyone working so diligently in pursuit of that goal.”