Most wins of the Bridgestone World Solar Challenge (Cruiser class)

The team with the most victories in the "Cruiser" category at the Bridgestone World Solar Challenge is Solar Team Eindhoven (Netherlands), which has won the event four times. The team has won every edition of the event (which is held every other year) since its debut in 2013. Their latest victory was secured on 21 October 2019 in Stella Era, which made the 3,020-km (1,876-mile) journey from Darwin to Adelaide, Australia, in six days.

The World Solar Challenge was first held in 1987. It was initially staged every three years (with follow-up events in 1990, 1993, 1996), and then every two years from 1999. Initially, there was only one event – a point-to-point race for any solar powered vehicle – but in 2013 this race was renamed the "Challenger class" and another category, the "Cruiser class" was created.

The Cruiser class is designed to promote the development of practical solar vehicles. Before the race, a team of expert judges give each vehicle a "practicality score" of between 0 and 100 based on factors including occupant space and comfort, ease of access and egress, and ease of operation. The teams then drive the same route as the Challenger-class vehicles, except while following a fixed schedule rather than racing.

There are a limited number of charging points along the route where the vehicles can top-up the energy they get from their solar panels, but doing so incurs a points penalty. The teams are awarded points for energy efficiency, punctuality and "person-kilometres" (the distance covered multiplied by the number of passengers in the car. These scores are then tallied together to produce the final overall standings.

The Stella Era is designed with a host of futuristic features, including autonomous driving systems and the ability to act as a mobile charging station for other electric vehicles. During the World Solar Challenge road trip, it used only 71.24 kilowatt-hours of external energy over the whole 3,020-km course.