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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.

Thursday, 12 January - The student team from Leuven that will compete in the Bridgestone World Solar Challenge in October will go on as Innoptus Solar Team. This marks the end of the Agoria Solar Team era. As Agoria Solar Team, the engineering students were able to achieve quite a few impressive performances in recent years. In addition to being world champions, they also became European champions twice and were able to break a world record.

The Agoria Solar Team was able to cover 19 kilometres more today than their biggest competitor: the Dutch team from Delft. With this, they won the day's stage in the Sasol Solar Challenge. Tomorrow, the engineering students will compete one last time on South African soil. The students from KU Leuven hope to catch up and still win the race. It promises to be a thrilling final stage.

Today, the Agoria Solar Team made it through the 'blind' stage of their race in South Africa. They only received the route yesterday. Due to this last-minute unveiling of the route, the Belgians still had to work out their strategy. The KU Leuven students endured this stage flawlessly. Due to the limitations of the route, they could not reduce the gap with the leaders today.

The Belgian Solar Team took the lead in the Sasol Solar Challenge today. With their newest solar car, the BluePoint Atlas, they were able to cover almost 80 kilometres more than their biggest competitor. This not only enabled them to win today's stage, but also to take first place in the overall ranking.

The Agoria Solar Team could start second in the Sasol Solar Challenge today. After a smooth start, the Belgians had a day full of bad luck. The chase vehicle of the solar car, which checks the status of the important parameters of the solar car, drove through a pot hole and got two flat tyres. A few hours later, an uneven road caused the solar car to end up on two wheels. As a result, many kilometres were lost today.

It took a while, but this is the official aftermovie of the Moroccan Solar Challenge. With their solar car, the BluePoint Altas, the Agoria Solar Team managed to cross villages as well as mountains. This resulted in a well-deserved second place. Now, almost 10 months later, the team is leaving for South Africa with the same solar car. This solar car has evolved a lot in the meantime and is ready to be tested again. But before they embark on this adventure, let's take a look back at how it all started.

The Agoria Solar Team took part in its first competition on the African continent, in October 2021, in the beautiful Morocco. In just five days' time, teams from all over the world were challenged to cover a distance of 2,500 kilometres in a self-built solar car, powered entirely by solar ene...

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.

On Sunday 22 November, the Agoria Solar Team opened the live show of the tenth edition of the Day of Science. A special anniversary edition, because the Day of Science took place completely digitally for the very first time.

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 ...

Thumbs up for Belgium 2 years ago, for their 3rd place in the bi-annual Bridgestone World Solar Challenge 2017. This year, a team of 19 KU Leuven students aims at even topping that achievement. As the ‘Agoria Solar Team’, they want to take the BluePoint, that’s how the successor of the previous Punch 2 is called, straight to the win. Of course, that requires some design improvements. That’s where Siemens Digital Industries Software has been instrumental. Let’s have a look how!

After a successful first day of testing, we almost immediately moved on to the next one. Before the race, we try to drive many kilometers with the BluePoint to ensure that every new part works and is properly assembled. Between each test day, we have two days for maintenance to the car and to ...

Since the very beginning of the project, we have been counting down the days to the beginning of September, to finally depart to Australia for the start of the Bridgestone World Solar Challenge. Last week, the day finally came and we left Belgium for unknown territories! We arrived in Darwin, ...

On Wednesday the 8th of May 2019, the Belgian Solar Team organised the 15th edition of the Solar Olympics. This is a competition in which secondary school students from all over Flanders are challenged to build an object on solar energy. During the finale, the youngsters showcased their result to a jury to win big prizes.

We have a very big announcement to make: we are proud to announce that we are now officially called the Agoria Solar Team and Punch Powertrain will pass the torch to Agoria as main sponsor of our team.

In October of 2018, we participated in the Carrera Solar Atacama, also referred to as the most extreme race for solar cars. We took part with the Punch 2, the solar car which had finished third in the Bridgestone World Solar Challenge the year before. The race lasted five and a half days and took...

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Vlak voor het einde van de vierde racedag, dinsdag, besloten we de bergen in te trekken. Na onze controlestop in San Pedro de Atacama hebben we ongeveer een kwartiertje gereden voor we uitkwamen bij Llano de la Paciencia...

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Na de derde race dag in Chili staan we nog steeds aan de leiding én hebben we een persoonlijk record verbroken. Daarnaast legde de Punch 2 haar tienduizendste kilometer af, halverwege de meest extreme race ter wereld.

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Één dag voor de race in Chili zijn de laatste voorbereidingen volop aan de gang. Onze kwalificatie ronde liep niet zoals we hadden verdacht, waardoor we nu als laatste starten aan de race. No worries: niets is verloren en we mikken nog altijd op de eerste...

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¡Estamos en Chile!
Dag 1 in Chili zit er ondertussen op. Na 14,5 uur op het vliegtuig kwamen we, licht groggy door de jetlag, 's ochtends om kwart na acht aan in Santiago. De eerste kilometers op de Chileense weg waren verwarrend. Zoals het hoort in...

The qualifying round was driven with the Punch 2 by professional racing driver Bert Longin. 42 solar cars gathered at the start of the Hidden Valley circuit, with the Punch 2 last in line. All teams had only one chance to set the fastest time, which would decide their starting position in the...

The Belgian Solar Team is third in the ranking of the world competition for solar cars in Australia. Today, the students of the University of Leuven overtook the team of the Japanese university of Tokai and the Dutch university of Twente. The team still has to drive 589 kilometers until Adelaide.

The Belgian solar car has gained one place in the ranking of the world competition for solar cars. The team is now ranked fifth.

The Belgian Solar Team earned the pole position at the world championship for solar cars in Australia. The car can start in the leading positioning.

For 16 months, the 21 engineering students of the Punch Powertrain Solar Team have been looking forward to the world championship for solar cars that will start on the 8th of October in Australia. Seven days before the race they placed their solar panel, with the best solar cells in the world, on the car. The team hopes that this will help them to be ahead of the international competition during the race.

We've arrived in Australia, time for a new update! We've had our last teambuilding in Belgium right before we left to Australia. The flight was good and we immediately started working once we arrived. Read this article to get to know more about our adventure!

We have revealed our brand new solar car. The seventh Belgian Solar Car is called the Punch Two and build in one year by 21 students from the KU Leuven.

Article on news site "Autosport.be" published on November, 22 2016.

Article in Flemish newspaper "HLN" published on the 10th of October 2016.

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A unique competition between man and machine, driven in a packed stadium. The athlete starts better than us. Will the solar car be able to catch up?

New team is selected, we're going for gold!

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