2015 Bridgestone World Solar Challenge

2015 Bridgestone World Solar Challenge

Since 1987, engineers from around the world have made a bet: that their team can design and build a solar car and take the approximately 3,000 kilometers in Australia, from Darwin to Adelaide. Mission biennial World Solar Challenge is not to race, but to push solar forward. The event is held every two years, and in 2015, qualifying rounds began on October 17 Challenge I ran from October 18 to 25, with 42 teams representing 24 countries / regions. The only winner of this challenge: 

technology.Bridgestone joint mission of the World Solar Challenge and the passion of the young participants: towards a more sustainable society. That is why they supported the Challenge as title sponsor in 2013 and again in 2015. Bridgestone is eager to help the individual engineers and their international colleagues, who play an important role in creating the future. Each participant in the World Solar Challenge Bridgestone know that energy-efficient technology goes far beyond the solar panel: With this in mind the future, Bridgestone has steadfastly, company-wide commitment to the environment under its threefold objectives of the activity created. This year, Bridgestone supplied a new generation of eco-friendly tires participate 17 international teams. They also gave teams the opportunity to test drive their cars through the vale ECOPIA tires, as well as access to the Bridgestone proving grounds, which give a very scientific and incredibly accurate results.