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Students hit the grid for
battery-powered final
Cenex, the UK's national centre of excellence for low carbon and fuel cell technologies, is sponsoring this year's Greenpower F24 National Final championship.
Cenex, the UK's national centre of excellence for low carbon and fuel cell technologies, is sponsoring this year's Greenpower F24 National Final championship The race features 75 single-seater 24V electric cars built by 900 students from 75 schools from all over the UK
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 28 Sep 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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The cars will be judged for not only distance travelled in six hours but also innovation and design.
The championship will be held at the Goodwood Motor Circuit on Sunday 15th October 2006.
Greenpower has been running the Formula 24 series for secondary schools since 1999, with the aim of promoting engineering and technology as careers to pupils throughout their school life, through an exciting hands-on project to design, build and drive electric racing cars.
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In that time hundreds of schools and many thousand of children have played an active part in building the cars within the schools with the help of teachers, co-opted outside engineers and parents.
"We are delighted to extend our support to Greenpower, a dedicated body encouraging innovation in electric vehicles", says Brendan Connor, Chairman of Cenex.
"It's a fantastic opportunity for young students to be able to design and build a low emission car and drive it in the competition".
"They are not only learning new skills but are also getting unprecedented direction and understanding on how to actively keep their environment clean".
Connor will be at the National Final at Goodwood to cheer the students on and present the trophies.
Each entrant is issued with a standard 24V electric wheelchair motor and four 12V car batteries (two on the car, and two on charge in the pit lane).
A series of gruelling six hour endurance races at motor circuits around the county build up to the national final, which is held each October at the historic Goodwood Motor Circuit.
Each team comprises six drivers and six pit crew.
The circuit length is 2.4 miles and the race will start at 1100 BST and finish at 1700 BST.
Entrance is free and facilities are excellent.
"We are pleased to receive support from Cenex in our endeavour to create awareness about engineering and technology as careers for students", says Barry Shears, Founder Director of Greenpower.
"We established this competition in 1999 for youngsters to participate in an exciting and educational engineering programme to understand how electric vehicles can reduce fuel use and the transport-related greenhouse gas emissions that are currently contributing to global warming and climate change".
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