A team from Delft University in the Netherlands has won the 2015 World Solar Challenge in Australia, a race designed to see which futuristic solar car was the fastest, according to TIME.
The World Solar Challenge is held every two years for teams from around the world to test out their solar powered cars, BBC News reported. This year's race covered 1,800 miles from Darwin to Adelaide in Australia under 100-degree Fahrenheit heat.
The Dutch group from Delft University, which won the last challenge in 2013, was one out of 50 international teams from schools and university's that competed this year.
The sun-powered electric vehicles were engineered on the premise that a 1,000-watt car could compete for over 50 hours, according to the World Solar Challenge. The eco-friendly cars stored a minimum of 5 kilowatts, and the rest of their energy came from the sun or kinetic energy once they were set in motion.
There were seven required check points in the race where teams gave basic maintenance to vehicles, checking tire air pressure or cleaning debris from the car.
Eight minutes after Delft's Nuon Solar Team's car Nuna 8 crossed the finish line, another Dutch team -- Solar Team Twente -- came in at second place, TIME reported. Third place went to the Japan's Tokai University, and the University of Michigan came in at fourth.
Check out a highlight of the 2015 World Solar Challenge below.
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