{"id":105301,"date":"2016-09-26T10:00:57","date_gmt":"2016-09-26T08:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=105301"},"modified":"2016-09-26T10:01:47","modified_gmt":"2016-09-26T08:01:47","slug":"solar-car-records-smashed-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/105301-solar-car-records-smashed-in-south-africa","title":{"rendered":"Solar car records smashed in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two of the teams competing in the bi-annual Pretoria to Cape Town\u00a0Sasol Solar Challenge\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.solarchallenge.org.za\/content\/official-ssc-solar-cars-hit-road-pretoria-kroonstad\" target=\"_blank\">smashed records<\/a><\/strong> this past weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Dutch team Nuon broke the record for the furthest distance travelled overall by a solar-powered car in a single day, a massive 707 kilometres.<\/p>\n<p>The South African teams also held their own, with the North-West University\u2019s solar team breaking the record for the longest distance covered in a single day by a South African team &#8211; an incredible 560 kilometres in their custom-built solar car.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s still a long way to go, as teams race for eight days on a route between Pretoria and Cape Town which\u00a0covers more than 2,000 kilometres.<\/p>\n<p>You can follow a daily recap of the event, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.solarchallenge.org.za\/content\/day-one\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to The best graphics cards you can buy for under R2,500\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/104735-the-best-graphics-cards-you-can-buy-for-under-r2500.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">The best graphics cards you can buy for under R2,500<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to This Overwatch \u201cclone\u201d has already been downloaded one million times on Steam\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/105231-this-overwatch-clone-has-already-been-downloaded-one-million-times-on-steam.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">This Overwatch \u201cclone\u201d has already been downloaded one million times on Steam<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Sid Meier\u2019s Civilization VI system requirements revealed\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/105237-sid-meiers-civilization-vi-system-requirements-revealed.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Sid Meier\u2019s Civilization VI system requirements revealed<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend&#8217;s Sasol Solar Challenge had an unusual brightspot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":105305,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8585],"tags":[31,13573,22141,22139,18529,17887],"class_list":["post-105301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gadgets","tag-active","tag-car","tag-endurance","tag-records","tag-solar","tag-speed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105301"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105317,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105301\/revisions\/105317"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}