As part of the UAE Innovates 2024 event, Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA)’s Innovation Centre hosted the second cycle of the CleanTech Hackathon from 19 to 21 February 2024. A UoS team from the Department of Sustainable and Renewable Energy Engineering (SREE) from the College of Engineering took part in the competition with their proposal “SolCharge” aimed at incorporating solar energy directly into day-to-day electric vehicle (EV) applications. The team won first place and a cash prize of 20,000 dirhams. The SREE team members were Siefeddin Tahayneh, Mariam Amr Abdellatif and Fadi Mohammad, under the supervision of Dr. Di Zhang.