#Energyboatchallenge

Hall of Fame

The champions, the prize-winners and the record-breakers of Port Hercule. Every July, the brightest student crews turn clean-energy engineering into a winning result.

Hall of Fame

Monaco Energy Boat Challenge Champion

The overall title rewards the best team of the year through a combined evaluation of racing, communication and the e-Championship. UniBoAT  the Argonauts Team from the University of Bologna — has dominated the era since 2021.

Combined score: 45% race performance · 45% Tech Talk & Communication · 10% e-Championship.

epfl
Champion 2026

swiss solar boat

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
prize giving Hall of Fame
Champion 2025

UniBoAT · Argonauts Team

Università di Bologna, Italy

prize giving Hall of Fame
Champion 2024

Oceanos NTUA

National Technical University of Athens, Greece

prize giving Hall of Fame
Champion 2023

UniBoAT · Argonauts Team

Università di Bologna, Italy

prize giving Hall of Fame
Champion 2022

UniBoAT · Argonauts Team

Università di Bologna, Italy

prize giving Hall of Fame
Champion 2021

UniBoAT · Argonauts Team

Università di Bologna, Italy

International Awards

Jury & Tech Talks prizes since 2021

Beyond the overall title, the International Jury and the Tech Talks reward innovation, design, sustainability, team spirit and communication. The most recent laureates are listed below.

with UBS

Innovation Prize

with Oceanco

Design Prize

with MarineShift360

Eco-Conception Prize

€25,000 grant

FPA II Award

Jury favourite

Jury Coup de Cœur

with Mairie de Monaco

Communication Prize

Newcomer

Rookie of the Year

Team spirit

Spirit Prize

Race Committee Awards

First place in each class, since 2014

The Race Committee rewards the best teams on the water. Here is the roll of class winners, edition by edition  current classes first, then the former classes of the event’s history.

Current classes

energy class Races by Class · Monaco Energy Boat Challenge
E · Energy

Energy Class

solar class
Ai · AI

AI Class

Monaco Energy Boat Challenge 2025
SL · SeaLab

SeaLab Class

open sea class
○ · Open Sea

Open Sea Xperience

Former classes

sealab class
Solar

Solar / A Class

team solar
Open

Open Class

team solar
V20

V20 Class

open sea class
Offshore

Offshore

Note: 2020 edition not held (Covid-19). 

Records & titles · 2014–2025

The most titled teams

Class wins in the official general ranking across editions a Dutch and Italian story of clean-energy engineering.

6

Titles · NED · Solar

Sunflare Solarteam

2018 · 2019 · 2021 · 2022 · 2023 · 2024

5

Titles · NED · Open

CLAFIS Energy Solar Boat Team

2014 · 2015 · 2016 · 2017 · 2018

3

Titles · NED · A Class

Dutch Solar Boat Team

2014 · 2015 · 2016

4

Titles · ITA · Energy

UniBoAT

2021 · 2022 · 2025 · 2026

Race Committee Award · Speed Record breaker

The fastest run on the water

Timed over two 500-metre runs combined into a single one-kilometre result  the most spectacular moment of the week, open to all eligible boats.

Current record · 2026

51,05 kn

 FRAUSCHER x PORSCHE — le 790 SPECTRE