Bridgestone World Solar Challenge | Darwin to Adelaide | 24-31 Aug 2025
The Bridgestone World Solar Challenge is a biennial event pitching the world’s brightest emerging minds in engineering against one another to build and operate a solar car from Darwin to Adelaide over a 3,000km adventure through the harsh Australian outback.
For over 30 years, the Bridgestone World Solar Challenge has welcomed the greatest minds from around the world to Australia to push the limits of technological innovation and travel the outback in a vehicle powered only by the energy of the sun.
Teams, usually comprising of tertiary and secondary students, traverse 3,000 kilometres from Darwin to Adelaide in a energy efficient electric vehicle designed, engineered, and built with their own hands.
Teams of the Bridgestone World Solar Challenge bring the world’s foremost innovation challenge to list – delivering sustainable personal transport.
2025 ROUTE
The Bridgestone World Solar Challenge starts in Darwin in the Northern Territory and travels the Stuart Highway to Port Augusta and then via Highway 1 to the finish in the City of Adelaide in South Australia.
ADELAIDE FINISH LINE | THURSDAY 28 – SATURDAY 30 AUGUST 2025 (9AM-5PM) – VICTORIA SQUARE / TARNTANYANGGA
Witness the team excitement and celebration as they cross the Experience Adelaide Finish Line after a 3,000-kilometre adventure from Darwin. Stay across BWSC social channels to find out when the first cars will arrive in Adelaide. Faculty calculations predict the first solar car will arrive Thursday morning, but it’s all up to the teams as the road to Adelaide can be challenging and unpredictable! Teams will continue to arrive across Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
BWSC STREET PARADE – SUNDAY 31 AUGUST 2025 (3PM) – VICTORIA SQUARE / TARNTANYANGGA
Catch one last look at the 2025 teams as they depart the Village, celebrating the end of another successful BWSC. Watch teams from across the world, celebrating the end of an epic Aussie adventure.
VIEW THE 2025 OFFICIAL PROGRAM
This event, the world’s greatest innovation and engineering challenge, began in 1987 and occurs once every two years. In 2019, a record 53 entries from 24 countries were received and around 1,500 participants were observed and followed by a global audience of more than 25 million. The event generates industry partnerships across energy, automotive, engineering, financial, material sciences, and IT sectors. And Bridgestone World Solar Challenge alumni have progressed from participation in the event to employment with some of the world’s leading engineering, automotive, and sustainable transport companies.
For more information and all enquiries please visit the World Solar Challenge website
What: Bridgestone World Solar Challenge
When: 24-31 August 2025
Where: Darwin to Adelaide
Who: Everyone
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Image Source: Bridgestone World Solar Challenge
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