First and second year Engineering students at UCI have prepared a car for entry in the 2011 Energy Invitational. Here is a photo of their car.
UCIs Beta Car
It is powered by a 12hp Briggs and Stratton engine through a CVT and chain drive.
Saddleback College Formula V
Saddleback College will run their Formula V at the 2011 UCI Energy Invitational. Here is photo of the chassis and suspension without the body.
Formula V chassis
MillenWorks Light Utility Vehicle
MillenWorks will show their LUV (Light Utility Vehicle) at the the 2011 Energy Invitational at Willow Springs Motorsports Park on March 30, 2011. It has a unique all wheel drive parallel hybrid powertrain for reduced fuel consumption and silent watch capability with extensive on-board power.
Toyota 2010 Fuel Cell Hybrid Vehicle
Toyota will demonstrate their Advanced Fuel Cell Hybrid Vehicle at the Energy Invitational at Willow Springs on March 30, 2011.
They will also demonstrate their Prius Plug-in Hybrid.
Prius Plug-in Hybrid
The training videos that Smitty developed for our design classes at UCI can be access at the YouTube site: Engineering Training Site.
The videos include basic welding 1 and 2, hand tools, soldering, metal forming 1 and 2, cutting, filing grinding and fitting metal for welding, measurements and layouts, and fasteners.
Phil Chipman, a local inventor, is returning to the UCI Energy Invitational with his electric three-wheeler. In last year’s event, Phil’s Electric Wind won the award for maximum projected distance on $1.00 worth of energy.
Here is a photo of his vehicle:
Chipman’s Electric Car
Here is another view:
Chipman’s Electric Car 2
For more photos, select this link for his webpage.
Melody Vo of the UCLA Super mileage team reports that the change in dates of the Energy Invitational may affect their plans to attend this event. Here is the photo of their proposed entry which competed successfully in Shell Eco-Marathon.
UCLA Supermileage
Brian Wang has sent some photographs of the vehicle he plans to enter into the 2011 UCI Energy Invitational.
Here is one:
Brian Wang 1
Here is another view of the car:
Brian Wang 2
And a photo of the driver’s compartment:
Brian Wang 3
Oscar Alonso replaced the parallelogram drive linkages of the three-panel Volve C70 hardtop convertible with quadrilateral linkages, so it deploys farther and stows more compactly. The wheelbase of this vehicle approaches that of the Mercedes CL500. He used our Mathematica linkage synthesis notebook and our Mechanism Generator add-in for SolidWorks.
This video shows a kinetic sculpture of a horse by the artist Francois Hameury.
His website is http://hameury.sculptures.pagesperso-orange.fr/index.htm