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We will be loading more pics soon. We did electric cars for 10 years, built 13 cars!

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Very cool stuff. I don't know of any high schools that did anything that fancy back then... we were racing electrathon, along with several other high schools in the area.

Just down the road from us, there is school that currently races the fastest electric pick-up truck in Canada.

But I've got to say... that formula electric looks pretty cool.

Jason

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Here are some videos I dug up from back then. I still need more time to scan and upload my old pics to the internet.....but in the meantime...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v73AykvQnI4

Here we got a reporter to drive our car
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vS-z_bS07U

http://www.schooltube.com/video/8dba5e933956df0e6660/

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Here are some construction photos

https://picasaweb.google.com/105131295243051980283/Fl

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Awesome!

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Here are more formula lightning pics in its 1st iteration

https://picasaweb.google.com/105131295243051980283/Fe

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2nd Iteration Formula Lightning

https://picasaweb.google.com/105131295243051980283/Nfe


180hp 100+miles per hour
Optima Batteries in 336v config
Three phase brushless electric turbine-motor
Sabina Speed controller
vehicle weight 3000lbs

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Here is an electric car ralley we were in in CA, finished at Disney Land!
https://picasaweb.google.com/105131295243051980283/Dis
We used a VW Rabbit, ugly as hell, got 80 miles per charge cost us $3000 to build it

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and another

https://picasaweb.google.com/105131295243051980283/Arc

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Wow,
cool stuff!
we built electric cars as well competing in New Hampshire and Oregon, in addition to Hawaii from 1996-2008.
Here's an old newsletter from Hawaiian Electric when they sponsored the event.
http://www.heco.com/vcmcontent/Corpo.../0605_heco.pdf

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Looks familiar.
I cant remember if I saw an old FIRST robot of yours or the car, when I went to Arizona back in 2005 when I had students compete in ISEF. You folks had a display there in the exhibit hall, IIRC.

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Though about doing electrathons, hard to leave full size cars if you know what I mean...That is awesome that is some one else out there in FRC land that has done electric cars

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Really cool stuff. I wish we could do the big cars, insurance is tough enough for what we are involved in. We also do an electrathon style program called NECA (National Electric Cart Association) here in Michigan. On the webpage, our car is the one front right. It's a really fun program where students from Coopersville High School run the whole thing.

Same basic thing as Electrathon, only we run a 3/8 or 1/2 mile oval track at 30-50 mph in a one hour endurance race.

We do this as a fall warm up for FRC to get kids into the mindset of creating something from nothing that has to perform reliably and safely. Last year we were in a crash and our car wasn't able to be saved, so we are starting with a brand new chassis and drive system to run in May.