Formula SAE

[lutach]

Originally Posted by Thomas

There are no budget limitations for teams, at least not in the rules. The maximum price of 25'000 USD per car was only a theoretical number for the cost event, where you had to calculate your production cost for 1000 units per year (including every single screw and assembly operation).

I asked Castle to build an ESC for us, 30s LiPo and 500 A, but they are very busy.

I'll send you a few links of some good things . I urge you to ask the places for sponsorship as some of the items can be costly. Is your team only going to enter in the electric only class or are you going for the hybrid one?

AWESOME! Wow!

Will have a look at your website right now!

[Thomas]

Last weekend, we won our first competition at Silverstone. We were almost as fast as the best combustion cars. Has some problems with the controllers, top speed was limited to about 80 km/h.
You can see the endurance run here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FN_Kbes4-4o That was with a current limit of 350 A per motor. During autocross, we allowed 500 A, which made the traction control work a lot more.



Picture gallery: http://www.amzracing.ch/amz/galleryD...?folder_id=843
Read what we're up to on Twitter: http://twitter.com/amzracing
Press release from the organizer: http://www.formulastudent.com/Files/...%20release.pdf

Regards,
Thomas

[Thomas]

For our new car Novena, we have developed and built two brushless outrunner motors which produce well over 30 kW and weigh roughly 10 kg. The batteries are 36s4p LiPo with 13.5 Ah each. The gearbox is also completely student-designed. I myself have developed the carbon driveshafts.
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fb...0576106&type=1

[Thomas]

This year, AMZ Racing built an even faster electric FSAE car: umbrail. It has two student-designed motors with 40 kW each, 5 kWh of LiPo batteries, a complete aero package and weighs just 170 kg.

http://www.racecar-engineering.com/n...leration-test/

[zeropointbug]

Wow, I would love to do what you are doing. How do I get there>?

[Thomas]

It's a student design competition, so you would have to be a student. Me personally, I was studying mechanicl engineering at ETH Zurich. Actually, I graduated last year and am not part of the team anymore.

There is an FSAE competition in Canada:
http://formulanorth.com/
http://www.facebook.com/formulanorth?ref=stream

I'm sure they are happily welcoming volunteers. So even if you're not a student, you can be part of the event.