{"id":373412,"date":"2026-10-08T15:55:20","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T10:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=373412"},"modified":"2026-10-08T15:55:31","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T10:25:31","slug":"sasol-solar-challenge-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/sasol-solar-challenge-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Sasol Solar Challenge 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"content-box-green\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>News:<\/strong> Team AgniRath from IIT Madras has secured 3rd Place overall at the prestigious Sasol Solar Challenge 2026 in South Africa.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2 class=\"red-h2-box\">About Sasol Solar Challenge 2026<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_373415\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-373415\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-373415\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/iit.jpg?resize=300%2C192&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Sasol Solar Challenge 2026\" width=\"300\" height=\"192\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/iit.jpg?resize=300%2C192&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/iit.jpg?resize=768%2C491&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/iit.jpg?w=1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-373415\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: DD News<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Sasol Solar Challenge 2026<\/strong> is a \u00a0<strong>South Africa&#8217;s competition<\/strong> that brings together <strong>local and international teams<\/strong> to <strong>design, build and race solar-powered vehicles.<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>It tests their <strong>technology, manufacturing and strategy<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-sfc-cp=\"\" data-sfc-root=\"ep\" data-epip=\"\" data-complete=\"true\"><span class=\"\" data-sfc-cp=\"\" data-sfc-root=\"c\" data-ved=\"2ahUKEwjRyICqiqqXAxXc1DgGHWZwBLoQ0fERegoIAggACAAIChAB\" data-complete=\"true\"><span class=\"iNqyIf\" data-sfc-cp=\"\" data-sfc-root=\"ep\" data-epip=\"\" data-complete=\"true\"><strong>Frequency:<\/strong> It<\/span><\/span><\/span> has been conducted <strong class=\"rQesXe MPyX\" data-sfc-cp=\"\" data-sfc-root=\"ep\" data-epip=\"\" data-complete=\"true\">biennially<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>since 2008.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Hosting Country: <\/strong>It is hosted by <strong>South Africa.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Feature:\u00a0<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">During the competition, cars can operate only from <strong>8 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">The winner is the team that <strong>covers the longest distance over eight days <\/strong>and\u00a0not the team that finishes first.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>India&#8217;s Performance:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Team AgniRath from IIT Madras secured 3rd place<\/strong> overall at the <strong>Challenge<\/strong>.\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is the <strong>first Indian team to participate in the challenge and win a trophy<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Their solar-powered car <strong>Aagneya covered 1,192.6 km in 8 days<\/strong>, from <strong>Johannesburg to Cape Town<\/strong>, through difficult terrain and weather.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: Team AgniRath from IIT Madras has secured 3rd Place overall at the prestigious Sasol Solar Challenge 2026 in South Africa. About Sasol Solar Challenge 2026 Sasol Solar Challenge 2026 is a \u00a0South Africa&#8217;s competition that brings together local and international teams to design, build and race solar-powered vehicles. It tests their technology, manufacturing and&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/sasol-solar-challenge-2026\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sasol Solar Challenge 2026<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10366,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1738,12039],"tags":[11872,11853],"class_list":["post-373412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","category-knolls","tag-9pm-daily-factly","tag-dd-news","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10366"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}