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News Release from: Technology Innovation Centre
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 17 January 2008
Students challenge electric car design
competition
Resulting competition car will form the basis of Westfield's forthcoming single-make Electric Race Car series.
Design students from universities, further education colleges and senior streams of secondary schools can now enter a competition to design the body for the world's first one-make electric vehicle race series The prototype rolling chassis has been developed by Kingswinford-based Westfield Sportscars, in collaboration with Silverstone-based Delta Motorsport and Birmingham City University's Technology Innovation Centre (TIC)
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 23 Nov 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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The design is intended to enclose the new rolling chassis.
The resulting competition car will form the basis of Westfield's forthcoming single-make Electric Race Car series.
The vehicle performance is impressive with a predicted 0-100km/h time of less than 5 seconds.
The latest lithium-ion batteries provide the capability to complete a typical 15-lap club race, while maintaining a total vehicle weight of under 600kg.
The competition is being run in conjunction with TIC's technology partner, PTC (Parametric Technologies Corporation), a US-based world-leading provider of new product development software.
Students will be provided with data showing the packaging envelope for the body and detail such as pickup points.
In addition to the opportunity for the winning design to be developed into a preproduction prototype which will be displayed at Autosport 2009, other prizes include the opportunity to visit Westfield Sportscars premises in the West Midlands.
Westfield and TIC will also be organising a track day for the winners.
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