Darwin0 km
3,033 km
In August 2027, solar cars leave Darwin for Adelaide. Solis UTCN, a student team from Cluj-Napoca, will be on the start line.
Scroll to drive the route. 325 days to the start.
Katherine322 km
The car never drives alone.
A lead car goes in front, a chase car behind, and the rest of the team follows with tools, spares and tents. At five in the evening everyone stops where the car stops.
Electrical, software, mechanical, communication and partnerships: students from across the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca.
Tennant Creek987 km
What we drive.
Hyperion carries one driver, 5.89 m² of solar cells and a 3 kWh battery. By here it has been running on sunlight for a thousand kilometres.
- Weight
- 194kg
- Top speed
- 120km/h
- Battery
- 3kWh
- Motor, at peak
- 5kW
Drag the car to turn it.
Barrow Creek1,210 km
Each trip has gone further down this road.
Our first trip to Australia covered 1,200 km, about the distance from Darwin to here. Two years later Hyperion more than doubled it.
- 2021Solis EV1Cluj-Napoca
- 2022Solis EV2Italy
- 2023Solis EV31,200 km
- 2024Solis EV4Zolder
- 2025Hyperion2,700 km
- 2026Hyperion Origin, Voyager OriginZolder
Alice Springs1,493 km
Halfway. Watch the rest live.
During the race the car reports its own numbers to this page, and the car on this line moves to where the real one is.
- Speed
- 78km/h
- Sun collected
- 880W
- Motor draw
- 1,040W
- Battery
- 71%
Demo numbers. The live feed starts with the race.
Hyperion, 20252,700 km
2,700km
As far as the sun has taken us.
The road is 3,033 km long. The car we are building now is for the rest of it.
Port Augusta2,719 km
The last 300 km take more than a team.
These companies gave the materials, parts, machine time, advice and funding that put Hyperion on the road.
Your logo on the car, the car at your events, and a first look at the engineers who built it.
Main
Gold
Silver
Bronze
3DDot, Analog Devices, AROBS, Fundația Autonom, Bigstore, DSV, Electroglobal, EXT, GM Suspension, INCAS, Innotec, LAPP, Meze Audio, Neon, Nicmar Danci, Promelek, RebelDot, Reconbatt, Tehnologistics, Trambus
Adelaide3,033 km
325
days until we set off again.
Bridgestone World Solar Challenge, 22 to 29 August 2027. There is a car to design, build and test before then, and room on the team.