Founded in 2017 at the Hanze University, Top Dutch Solar Racing started as a student initiative to pursue a challenging goal: design and build a solar-powered car and compete in the Bridgestone World Solar Challenge.

The team consisted of highly skilled and motivated students, which with their electrical and mechanical expertise allowed them to go on and construct Green Lightning, our first solar car, which became the national Dutch Champion and won the Excellence in Engineering award at the team's first Bridgestone World Solar Challenge in 2019.

Ever since, every two years a new generation of students assembles and goes on to design and construct a brand new solar-powered car, with the current fifth generation being Team '27.

Apart from the Bridgestone World Solar Challenge, Top Dutch Solar Racing also takes part in the iLumen European Solar Challenge (iESC) and the Moroccan Solar Challenge, and has collected many accolades over the years, most recently placing third at the iESC 2026 with Team '25's Green Falcon.

Top Dutch Solar Racing is a multidisciplinary solar racing team based in the North of the Netherlands, independent of any single technical university. Is members, students from MBO, HBO and WO institutions, bring diverse strengths to the project. Governed by the also student-run Solar Racing Groningen foundation, the team handles every aspect of the project - from technical design and construction to communications, partnerships and logistics.