{"id":50510,"date":"2020-05-14T06:00:33","date_gmt":"2020-05-14T04:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/udexpress\/solar-car-challenge-postponed-20200512-4\/"},"modified":"2025-03-21T00:46:38","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T22:46:38","slug":"solar-car-challenge-postponed-20200512-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/udexpress\/solar-car-challenge-postponed-20200512-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Solar car challenge postponed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>THE 2020 Sasol Solar Challenge (SSC) has been postponed until early 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Uitenhage residents, every second year, get a glance of talented engineering teams from around the world, passing the town on the R75 in their futuristic vehicles, covering 2 500km on public roads. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This biennial competition is provisionally scheduled to take place from 19- 26 February 2021 instead of September 2020 as initially planned. Participating teams will be able to register until the end of November 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A new date for the South African launch and local testing event originally scheduled for June this year will depend on guidance from the South African government and will be announced once confirmed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This postponement is a natural consequence of the Covid-19 pandemic. 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