We did electric cars!!!
I am loading these photographs up before I loose them or they burn or something…plus I can share them
https://plus.google.com/photos/105131295243051980283/albums/5815927488441021617
Wow. Those shorts!
That is pretty awesome!
Do you have any specs of the car? Especially the battery/motor that powers something like that?
What can I say… it was back in the day
That particular config
GE Forklift controller, 500amp with 5 sec bypass
GE starter motor for aircraft, 21 hp cont 7o hp peak
Trojan deep cycle batteries 100amp/hour in 96 volt configuration
car weighed about 3000lbs
We improved it a lot more, will load those pics soon…
I used an intenet time machine to find a post from a just graduated FRC student in 2032.
“Wow. Check out the Hair Mr. O used to have…”-Some student yet to be born…
3000 lbs is a whole lot of car, but I bet this car was still pretty quick. Formula Electric?
As long as it’s about my hair and it’s not something like, “What happend? You used to be so thin!”
Yes Formula E
I was running 70 miles a week, marathoner, and was in my 20’s now I am almost 50
Here is the first car we built. As far as I know we were and still are the first HS in the US maybe the world to build a full sized electric car and race it.
https://picasaweb.google.com/105131295243051980283/1EV
I love the “hybrid” trailer.
I am really awe struck at how awesome this is, and seeing a group of high school-ers doing something as large as converting an beater into an electric race car. And here I thought FRC was hard 
Just wondering any numbers on how fast these things can go?
The converted Toyota went as high as 60 miles an hour, not in hybrid mode. In hybrid mode we could go a consistent 40 miles an hour with a 10 kw generator. It got 70 miles per gallon!
The other set of pics, the Formula E went about 100mph
This is kind of inspiring. I have been looking at colleges and ever since I heard of the collegiate hybrid race teams that has been one of my pluses.
We will be loading more pics soon. We did electric cars for 10 years, built 13 cars!
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
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…
Here we got a reporter to drive our car
Here are some construction photos
Awesome!