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ARRB’s Senior Professional Leader, Mobility Futures, Dr Robert Kochhan, will be joining Africa’s biggest solar challenge, the Sasol Solar Challenge.
Taking place in South Africa, the event will host solar car teams from around the world to compete in a road journey covering the most kilometres without using a single drop of fuel.
Using only solar photovoltaic power, the challenge will run from Johannesburg to Cape Town, with a drop in altitude of more than 1500 metres and varying weather conditions to be expected on the way.
Dr Kochhan is ARRB’s electric vehicle (EV) expert, who is looking forward to joining the event as a volunteer after previously attending the World Solar Challenge in Australia, the biggest event of this type where solar cars complete the 3000 km journey between Darwin to Adelaide in less than a week
“My love for vehicle technology and my educational background, work experience and previous solar challenge experience fuelled my decision to join the Sasol Solar Challenge”, Dr Kochhan said.
The challenge will display what can be achieved using today’s solar photovoltaic and light-weight vehicle technology to cover long distances without using fossil fuels.
With his knowledge of solar car technology and passion for sustainable mobility, Dr Kochhan is looking forward to meeting other experts in solar and vehicle technology at one of the major solar car racing events in the world.
“I am most passionate about solar energy technology as a means of renewable energy generation. It can be used on vehicles, buildings, fields, small-scale or large scale to contribute to our energy needs”, Dr Kochhan said.
The event will take place from 9-16 September 2022. For more information, visit https://www.solarchallenge.org.za.
The start date coincides with the World EV Day on Friday 9th September, celebrating sustainable electric mobility.
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