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Friend Nebraska 2024 Cars
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Sequoia Electrathon Racer (2024)
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I working on & planning to build another racer for 2024 I learned a lot from building & testing Polaris ...but, I would like to try-n-upgrade many things like: Roll over protection ...so, the driver is more enveloped Wheels ...properly designed for the "loads" that will be inflicted upon...
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New Solo Build Car Coming In Hot!
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Currently building a new car for the 2018 season and onwards. Design began just over one year ago and construction began early June. Modeled and simulated entirely in Solidworks. Frame is 4130 construction at 1"x.049", MIG welded. All of my jigs were 3D printed. Many components are being made on my u...
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Latest aussie cars
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G'day again everyone, Thought I'd share a few pictures of some of our newest cars from the eV Challenge - the west australian second-cousin of electrathon over here (www.evchallenge.org.au and www.facebook.com/evchallengewa if you're interested). The cars are from the school I teach at - Come...
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Polaris (Electrathon racecar)
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Howdy all, I've been building go karts & mini-vehicles for a few years & just recently found out about Electrathon America & I think it's so kool, that I started designing & building a racer, Polaris (I name all of my creations) I'll be a (3) wheeler ...mainly built it out of some 1/2...
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ProEV Super Coupe 2022-23
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I posted a detailed description of the Super Coupe as it is running now here: https://proev.com/P2Desc.htm
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Yet another new car
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So I started another new car build. I think it's my 8th or 9th now. I'm starting to lose track. Anyway, for this one I wanted to see how much speed I can carry through the corners on the shorter parking lot courses. Consequently I decided on much shorter and wider wheels and tires than what I usually use. T...
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Speedway only car
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This is the build pics of my newest car. It was designed specifically for my local race which is held on a 1/2 mile banked oval. It is mostly constructed of 1/2" conduit and has sliding pillar front suspension and a swingarm rear suspension. It has 12.5" front tires and a 20" rear. It is 31" wide, 22" tall,...
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2022 Cars
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Here is a pic of the Friend, Ne EV's with team members.
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Connecting with other Mid-Atlantic Electrathon Schools/Groups, looking to 2023
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My school (high school) participated in Electrathon America several years ago, and there is interest among our students in a new car/competitive entry. As we seem to be moving to post-COVID opportunities, I am interested in connecting with other mid-Atlantic area (MD, VA, DC, PA, DE, WV or adjace...
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New build
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After three years and only 10 races it is time to retire the old 321 car in favor of something lighter, smaller, and hopefully more comfortable. This one measures at 8 ft long (which is over 2ft shorter than the old car) and will have full suspension. Fitting everything inside such a small package may...
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Archer321
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3 wheel steering build and design
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When I graduated high school and went off to college, I also left electrathon, but last winter I was able to buy a used car from another team. However I didn't like telling people that I just bought a car and I wanted to challenge myself into building a very special one. As a mechanical engineering studen...
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#59 David Douglas High School
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This is the first car Zaine Stapleton built for his senior year at David Douglas. Car #59 has raced at one race so far; the Eugene Celebration Kilowatt Klassic. The goal with his car is to get David Douglas interested in kick starting the electrathon program again before he leaves. The Intergrated...
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New wheels...for a new car?
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So I broke multiple spokes at Barber (due to high cornering speeds) and then I broke more at Cocoa Beach (due to the course being as smooth as the surface of the moon) so it was time for a change. I started collecting pieces and have assembled what are possibly the most bulletproof set of wheels possible....
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2018 Aussie cars
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Gday all from Australia - its been a while. Just thought Id link you in to our event, the eV Challenge Powered by Synergy (we got event sponsorship from our local electricity supplier) which is at www.facebook.com/evchallengewa if youre interested. Lots of photos from the last few years, and our c...
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CAR 132 USF IEEE Electrathon
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just wanted to show off some videos from our last two races, sorry about the lower quality ( hero 6 coming soon ) -- Edited by 4TRIDENT4 on Saturday 18th of November 2017 10:57:21 PM
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USF IEEE Electrathon Race Videos
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Just wanted to share some videos from our past two races We would love some more competition here in the Tampa bay! I post videos of all our races so check em out if your int...
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Weinermobile
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I am helping a local high schooler who needs to check his spelling ("Weenier for the win", really?) build a car. It is based on a 6' fiberglass hotdog he had. Progress so far...
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My New Car #365 Build Process
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I have been building a new car to race here in Tampa and I'm making this to show my process for building, along to share some of my ideas. To build this car my first thought was how to make all the wheels perfectly lined up, to do this I had a friend and my Electrathon teacher (wood shop teacher) help me make a...
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Video Footage at Portland International Raceway
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XUCiYlGxSw Clip from 2012 on day two in Portland, Oregon at PIR for the long course. Zaine
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2015 Aussie cars
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G'day all, been a while since I had a chance to post here from down under - the new set up looks great btw. Anyway our 2015 event, we call it the eV Challenge, was run in November, have a look at the cars on our Facebook page www.facebook.com/ITCGlobalElectricVehicleChallenge if you get a chance. My stud...
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One Week Car
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On Friday 10/9/15 my team in Tampa realized we had one week to make a race that was on Saturday 10/17/15. All we had was a crooked frame from the four wheel car and a front axle that was not installed correctly. In 6 work days we were able to build the whole car and race it. This was the car after the first build...
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VIDEO OF LANE CC RACE 2015
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdK2o5qQtfg THIS IS A VIDEO LINK TO A GREAT VIDEO BY A STUDENT IN OUR SCHOOL'S VIDEO GRAPHICS CLASS. GREAT GO-PRO SHOTS WITH HIS QUAD COPTER DRONE AND CAMERAS MOUNTED ON CARS AS WELL AS HAND HELD. JUST TURN DOWN THE SOUND AS IT HAS MY VOICE IN A LOT OF THE BACKGROUND...
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Electrathon at the White House Science Fair
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The car shown with Pres. Obama at the Science Fair at the White House is from San Antonio Tex. The car has competed at the Emerald Coast Electrathon at Five Flags Raceway in Pensacola Fl. The fair was all about Science and STEM.
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A couple of Aussie cars from 2013
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G'day again guys from Oz. Been watching with interest at some of the new car designs and thought I'd share a couple from my schools from our eV Challenge competition here on the west coast of Australia. These are the two cars we raced in November last year. Compared to the Electrathon rules our cars are...
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Clay
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building enclosed trike.
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laying up a shell now for my enclosed trike. I'll keep it pedal and ev assist. Learning curve and KISS. lam using half of this canoe for the lower: Canopy mold (l have male & female) and canopy frame you...
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My teams 2 cars
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These are the 2 cars my team is working on right now. These are both from Willamette high school. 107 was our first car and the one we built from scratch, and the blacked out one, 007, is the one we adopted recently and are fixing up to get ready for the last 2 races in Mapleton and PIR. I will post better pictu...
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After being hit and flipping my car (for the first time in Cloud Racing history) we decided it needed a new paint job...
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Our First car
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First test run of our first car.
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Need Pix & Video
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I am putting together promotional material for upcoming races and two trade shows and need some help. I need pix of car construction and the finished product, In Car videos, start line pix and videos, pit crew action etc. Thanks Vic Nieves Program Director, Electrathonoftampabay.org v_nieves...
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