Innoptus Solar Team is a non-profit project of the University of Leuven.

GOAL
Every two years, a new team of students with backgrounds in engineering takes on the challenge to design and produce a car solely powered by the sun's energy to compete in the Bridgestone World Solar Challenge, a staggering race of 3.021 km through the Australian outback against high ranking universities like MIT, TU Delft, Stanford.

HISTORY
YEAR - TEAM - COMPETITION - RANKING
2005 - TEAM 1 - World Solar Challenge - 11th
2007 - TEAM 2 - World Solar Challenge - 2nd
2009 - TEAM 3 - World Solar Challenge - DNF
2011 - TEAM 4 - World Solar Challenge - 10th
2013 - TEAM 5 - World Solar Challenge - 6th
2014 - TEAM 5 - Abu Dhabi Solar Challenge - 3rd 
2014 - TEAM 6 - European Solar Challenge - 3rd
2015 - TEAM 6 - World Solar Challenge - 5th
2017 - TEAM 7 - European Solar Challenge - 2nd
2017 - TEAM 7 - World Solar Challenge - 3rd 
2018 - TEAM 7 - Carrera Solar Atacama - 1st 
2019 - TEAM 8 - World Solar Challenge - 1st
2020 - TEAM 8X - European Solar Challenge - 1st
2021 - TEAM 9X - European Solar Challenge - 1st
2021 - TEAM 9 - Solar Challenge Morocco - 2nd
2022 - TEAM 9X - Sasol Solar Challenge - 2nd
2022 - TEAM 10 - European Solar Challenge - 6th
2023 - TEAM 10 - World Solar Challenge - 1st
2024 - TEAM 10X - Sasol Solar Challenge - 1st
2024 - TEAM 11 - European Solar Challenge - 1st
2025 - TEAM 11 - World Solar Challenge - 3rd

CONTACT
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