Vattenfall drives last lap for solar race group

• This year's race in Australia in October will certainly the 20th and last year the Swedish business has been sponsor

Swedish power company Vattenfall is joining the Vattenfall Solar Team once again this year to attempt and also win the World Solar Challenge race title.

After this race-- which is set to take place in Australia in October-- Vattenfall will step down as the team's major sponsor.

Over the past two decades Vattenfall Solar group, consisting of students from Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, has actually won 10 globe titles as well as set 2 world records.

The group's primary mission has constantly been to press the borders of what is technically possible and to motivate the world to go for a sustainable future where energy is used as successfully as feasible, Vattenfall said.

The company has been the major sponsor of the Vattenfall Solar Team because 2001, however after introducing a new sponsorship approach it was made a decision that the agreement with the Vattenfall Solar Team will not be expanded after 2021.

Vattenfall Netherlands chief executive Martijn Hagens claimed: "I was always proud of our relationship with the Vattenfall Solar Team and also its efficiencies.

" We commemorated some fantastic successes together, as well as the group has actually influenced old as well as young alike to consider what fossil-free living truly means.

" As everybody understands, it had not been feasible to compete in any type of global solar races in 2020. However, the trainees remained to have the exact same drive and decision as ever before.

" The team is now busy preparing for the World Solar Challenge 2021 in Australia.

" Providing Covid-19 does not put a spanner in the works, the race will certainly take place in October-- and also we're all looking forward to it. We hope we can bring home the gold once more, with each other."

Vattenfall Solar Team managerial board chair Sander Koot said: "We can reflect on an amazing partnership with Vattenfall, as well as we're grateful for everything we've achieved with them over the past 20 years.

" This final race features its own possibilities for the team: we can write a new phase in our tale as well as assistance pupils develop on a personal degree, know their dreams and also breakthrough sustainability as well as technology greater than we ever assumed possible."

The group will proceed in 2022 with a new, yet unnamed, sponsor.