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10-14-2009, 08:33 AM
http://www.cleanmpg.com/photos/data/2/AmericanFlag.jpg The goal is to make a car that is buildable and buyable. (http://media.www.thespartandaily.com/media/storage/paper852/news/2009/10/14/News/Engineering.Students.Feel.The.Need.For.Hybrid.Speed-3802774.shtml)
http://www.cleanmpg.com/photos/data/501/Large_format_LiON.JPGLeonard Lai - WWW (http://media.www.thespartandaily.com) - October 14, 2009
What efficiency will their creation realize? --Ed.
A team of senior mechanical engineering students is in the early stages of building a formula hybrid race car, which can stay green and go fast - for a student-built car.
"At the moment, it consists of a frame, but the engine just arrived," said Randy Floresca, SJSU chapter president of SAE International. "Hybrid gives us the opportunity to expand."
Floresca said the car will be built at E123, known as "the Senior Shop," in the Engineering building.
This will be the first time this team will build a car, he said.
He said the engine is a Honda GX200 gas engine with two electric motors.
Matthew Kihlthau, a senior mechanical engineer said he wants to disprove the myth that hybrid vehicles (a vehicle that uses two or more distinct power sources) are incapable of high speeds.
"Just because something is hybrid doesn't mean it has to be slow," Kihlthau said. It could reach 50 miles per hour, he said.
"We only have a PVC (poly vinyl chlorite) mock-up frame and simulation testing right now of what the car would look like and is capable of," senior mechanical engineering major Gabriel Crisologo said.
Senior mechanical engineer Tariqu Khalil said the target audience for the... http://media.www.thespartandaily.com/media/storage/paper852/news/2009/10/14/News/Engineering.Students.Feel.The.Need.For.Hybrid.Speed-3802774.shtml
http://www.cleanmpg.com/photos/data/501/Large_format_LiON.JPGLeonard Lai - WWW (http://media.www.thespartandaily.com) - October 14, 2009
What efficiency will their creation realize? --Ed.
A team of senior mechanical engineering students is in the early stages of building a formula hybrid race car, which can stay green and go fast - for a student-built car.
"At the moment, it consists of a frame, but the engine just arrived," said Randy Floresca, SJSU chapter president of SAE International. "Hybrid gives us the opportunity to expand."
Floresca said the car will be built at E123, known as "the Senior Shop," in the Engineering building.
This will be the first time this team will build a car, he said.
He said the engine is a Honda GX200 gas engine with two electric motors.
Matthew Kihlthau, a senior mechanical engineer said he wants to disprove the myth that hybrid vehicles (a vehicle that uses two or more distinct power sources) are incapable of high speeds.
"Just because something is hybrid doesn't mean it has to be slow," Kihlthau said. It could reach 50 miles per hour, he said.
"We only have a PVC (poly vinyl chlorite) mock-up frame and simulation testing right now of what the car would look like and is capable of," senior mechanical engineering major Gabriel Crisologo said.
Senior mechanical engineer Tariqu Khalil said the target audience for the... http://media.www.thespartandaily.com/media/storage/paper852/news/2009/10/14/News/Engineering.Students.Feel.The.Need.For.Hybrid.Speed-3802774.shtml