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trucks and regular traffic. At each stage, large crowds
turned out to welcome the participants and school
children were given talks on how the technology was
being utilised.
There were a number of first entries this year – the
Genuine JV Solar Car built by the team of high school
students, as well as entries from UNISA, the University
of the Free State, Solar Flair built by a team of private
engineers based in Mpumalanga, and the current World
Champions, a team of Belgian engineers which entered
as the Agoria Solar Team.
Strategy and adventure were the key themes for this
year’s solar challenge, with the ultimate aim to cover
the greatest distance. To make the event more exciting,
this year’s challenge incorporated special stages, which
were: a marathon stage (which started in Kroonstad and
Devil’s Claw (Harpagophytum procumbens)
finished in Gariep) that required teams to work on their
solar cars in a closed and secured area with limited
workforce; as well as half and full blind stages, where
information relating to the route was withheld until the
night before the teams took to the road. This forced
them to strategise at the last minute without prior
preparation.

“The teams found these new developments to be quite

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