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Thursday, Sept. 19, 2024 - The Innoptus Solar Team, the student team from KU Leuven, is in the lead one day before the end of the Sasol Solar Challenge with an impressive lead. The teams had their “blind” stage today; the route was only announced last night. The final stage promises to be exciting.

Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2024 - The Innoptus Solar Team, KU Leuven's student team, was able to cover more than 700 km today during a challenging desert stage of the Sasol Solar Challenge. In doing so, they broke their own daily record and took the lead. The past few days the teams played leapfrog with each other. The Belgians were able to take advantage of their fin today and managed to cover 100 km more than their competitors.

Sunday 15 September 2024 - The Innoptus Solar Team returned to the lead of the standings in the Sasol Solar Challenge today. The KU Leuven students started this morning in third place after suffering some technical problems yesterday. They covered 672.9 kilometres today, setting a daily record. It is the first time in the history of the challenge that a team can cover so many kilometres in one day.

Saturday, 14 September 2024 - The Innoptus Solar Team started this morning in the lead of the Sasol Solar Challenge. The students from KU Leuven encountered some technical problems that forced them to deviate from their predetermined strategy. The Belgians had to leave their biggest competitors, the team from Delft and the team from Twente, ahead of them and ended the day in third position. The competition will continue for six more days and the engineering students will do everything they can to regain the leading position.

The Innoptus Solar Team takes gold for the second time in a row, after already becoming world champions in 2019. The engineering students had a flawless edition.

The Innoptus Solar Team remained in the lead in the Bridgestone World Solar Challenge today. Their pursuers, the Team from Twente, were able to make up some of their deficit and stranded just 24 kilometres from the Belgians. Over the next two days, both teams will pull out all the punches to take home the coveted world title.

Today, we took the lead after the first day of the Bridgestone World Solar Challenge, the world solar car championship taking place in Australia. We started in second place after our great qualifying lap yesterday and finished the day as number one thanks to a perfectly executed strategy.

Today, the solar car of the Innoptus Solar Team, KU Leuven's student team, underwent the mandatory checks for the world championship in Australia. They are participating this edition with the Infinite, the 10th Belgian solar car. Last edition in 2019, the Belgians became world champions.

Today, the Innoptus Solar Team introduced the 'Infinite,' the tenth Belgian solar car. The team of 20 engineering students worked together for a year on this milestone solar vehicle. Their goal is to win the Bridgestone World Solar Challenge in Australia.

Today, the Agoria Solar Team finished second in the Sasol Solar Challenge. It is the first time the KU Leuven students participated in this competition. After a lot of bad luck and a technical failure of their battery, they still managed to finish in second place.

The Belgian Solar Team was unable to close the gap to the leaders, the Dutch team from Delft, today due to unexpected roadworks. Due to the strategy followed today, both teams took turns to lead the stage. The gap is less than 30 kilometres. With two days to go, it will be very exciting for the engineering students. After today's stage, the Agoria Solar Team has travelled about 3160 kilometres in the Sasol Solar Challenge. This is the longest distance a Belgian solar car could ever cover in a competition.

After a challenging stage, the Agoria Solar Team could not keep its first place in the Sasol Solar Challenge. The KU Leuven student team lost its leading position to its biggest competitor: the team from Delft. Their newest solar car, the BluePoint Atlas, had to climb two steep mountains today. This was quite a challenge for the solar car's motor, which was designed and produced by the students themselves. The exciting battle will continue over the next four days.

After their bad luck day yesterday, the Agoria Solar Team was able to make up a lot of kilometres in the Sasol Solar Challenge today. They were able to catch up 38 kilometres of the 100 kilometres they were behind. Tonight the marathon stage is on the programme. In this stage, the reliability of their newest solar car, the BluePoint Atlas, will be put to the test.

Thursday 25 August - The Agoria Solar Team was able to test their newest solar car, the BluePoint Atlas, for the first time today in South Africa. The solar car will be competing in the Sasol Solar Challenge in less than a month. To make sure the solar car didn't get damaged during transport, it was tested today on a closed test track.

The Agoria Solar Team has managed to set the record for 'most number of kilometers driven with a solar car in 12 hours'. The KU Leuven student team managed to cover 1051 kilometers in 12 hours with their latest solar car, the BluePoint Atlas. With this they broke the previous record of 924 kilometers in 12 hours that had been held by the Dutch Solar Team from Delft since 2020.

Wednesday, October 27 - The Agoria Solar Team drops to second place in the Solar Challenge Morocco. Hectic traffic and tire trouble caused problems for the solar car. The team is over half way through the race in Morocco after today.

The Agoria Solar Team started third in the Solar Challenge Morocco in the morning of Monday, 25 october 2021. The KU Leuven student team was soon able to overtake the Dutch competitors in the hectic Moroccan traffic. The team was also able to maintain its first place during the tough climb in the Atlas Mountains.

The Agoria Solar Team has proudly presented their new solar car in front of the Afrikamuseum in Tervuren. 20 ambitious engineering students from the KU Leuven University unveiled the high-tech car they have designed and built over the past year. Noteworthy? The solar-powered car has only three wheels and a unique streamlined bullet shape.

It has been confirmed that the World Solar Challenge 2021 in Australia will not take place due to the Covid-19 pandemic. This is a major setback for the solar team community and our team, as we have been working tirelessly towards this adventure over the last seven months.

Since this weekend, the Belgian Solar Team can call itself not only world champion but also European champion. The solar car BluePoint was the winner of the iLumen European Solar Challenge on Sunday at 1pm. The highest number of laps was thanks to a fast car and a strong strategy. This is the third win in a row for the Belgian Solar Team, after winning in Chile in 2018 and at the World Championship in Australia in 2019.

The recent Coronavirus outbreak has brought many changes and uncertainty. Yesterday, we found out that the race in South Africa for which we have been working for almost a year is being postponed. That means we won't be racing in September this year, but the race will take place in February 2021.

We have risen to second in the world championship for solar cars. But not in the way we had hoped, because Tuesday afternoon strong winds advanced that caused some dangerous situations.

After an impressive qualifying lap by our professional racing pilot Bert Longin, we started fourth in Darwin. We covered 633 kilometers today, which is 50 kilometers more than last year's edition. This is due to the fact that the BluePoint is lighter and more efficient than the previous car ...

Saturday, two weeks before the race: this day was marked in our calendars as the infamous tinkerstop. This big deadline ensured that the team would stop adding extra modifications to the BluePoint and that the car would be completely race ready. After this deadline, we would only ...

After the arrival of our solar car in Darwin, we immediately got to work to get the BluePoint ready before we would drive the first test kilometers. About a week and a half later, the car was completely ready to go to the track. At the moment, the tests are done on a runway because the BluePoint...

On Wednesday the 3rd of July, we presented our brand new solar car. In exactly one year time we designed, produced and assembled the newest solar car, powered entirely by solar energy.

Our team and progress relies on the support & feedback from over 150 partners in many different sectors. Last Thursday, we invited our partners to join us in the Antwerp Port House for our Partner Event. The theme of the evening: the four pillars of the Solar Team.

2018 was a year of changes. After the third place in the Bridgestone World Solar Challenge in October of 2017, the seventh Belgian Solar Team started recruiting the new team. A team of 20 students was elected to join and in July of 2018, they started their journey as the eight Belgian Solar Team. The first months...

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Ja: het is zo ver, het Belgische Solar Team is eerste geëindigd! We zijn officieel als eerste over de finish van de Carrera Solar Atacama gereden, ver voor de andere teams.

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Vier dagen zijn we onderweg, de tijd vliegt! In totaal hebben we al meer dan 1700 kilometers afgelegd. We hebben 4 controle stops gedaan, waardoor we 2 uur hebben bijgeladen én we hebben de hoogste bergtop in de race beklommen!

Friday, Sept. 13, 2024 - The Innoptus Solar Team, KU Leuven's student team, started this morning the Sasol Solar Challenge, an eight-day solar car challenge across South Africa. Strong cooperation allowed the solar car to be smoothly piloted through the hectic South African traffic. The students ended the day as leaders in the standings. They were able to cover the most kilometers but arrived too late, which means they will have to stop for 34 minutes during the day tomorrow.

Friday, Sept. 13, 2024 - The Innoptus Solar Team, KU Leuven's student team, started this morning the Sasol Solar Challenge, an eight-day solar car challenge across South Africa. Strong cooperation allowed the solar car to be smoothly piloted through the hectic South African traffic. The students ended the day as leaders in the standings. They were able to cover the most kilometers but arrived too late, which means they will have to stop for 34 minutes during the day tomorrow.

In addition to getting the team and solar car ready, the team is also preparing for camping during the challenge and working on the solar car in the evening. To power this, they are relying on solar panels and a battery pack for the first time.

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Ondertussen zitten de twee eerste racedagen in Chili er op. De Carrera Solar Atacama, beter bekend als de meest extreme race voor zonnewagens ter wereld, blijft ons verrassen met haar veelzijdigheid.

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Ondertussen zijn er nog vier dagen te gaan tot het begin van de Carrera Solar Atacama: de meest extreme race voor zonnewagens, 2500 kilometer dwars door Chili. De race start op zaterdag 20 oktober om 12 uur lokale tijd, wat overeen komt met 17 uur in België.

On Saturday the 21st of July, the Belgian Royal House celebrates the Belgian National Day. During this year's festivities in Brussels Park, we were invited to showcase the Punch II to the public. At the end of the day, we were honored by a visit from King Philippe and Queen Mathilde.

The Belgian Solar Team won bronze in the World Solar Challenge in Australia. “We’ve put our heart and soul into this."

On the third day of the world championship for solar cars, the Belgian Solar team is still ranked fifth. But the team is getting closer to the top four.

The Solar Team is 6th at the championship for solar cars. Due to something that was dragging at the rear wheel, the team had to let some competitors go ahead.

On Sunday, we will start the World Championship with great confidence. We installed an innovative system which allows the car to benefit from the side wind.

We continued working from the moment we've set foot on Australian soil! The battery pack is reassembled and the solar car was stripped to its core to give her new racing components. Meanwhile the testing period in Australia came closer every day.

The Belgian Solar Team has worked 13 months on Punch 2, the solar car where the 21 engineering students will compete in the Bridgestone World Solar Challenge, starting on October 8th. Today the solar car was packed in its custom made crate and shipped to Australia by DHL Global Forwarding.

Article in Flemish newspaper "De Tijd" published on the 13th of October 2016.

Article published in October edition JEC magazine. (2016)

Article published in Flemish newspaper "De Morgen"on november 7, 2016.

Article published in Flemish newspaper "De Morgen" August2, 2016.

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