Buckeye Bullet 2.5 hit 307mph on Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats in 2010 http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=buckeye-bullet-electric-vehicle-will-go-400mph [image] The Buckeye Bullet Electric Vehicle Will Go 400 MPH (Preview) By Gregory Mone Feb 1 2013
[image BARRY HATHAWAY AND THE CENTER FOR AUTOMOTIVE RESEARCH, OSU http://www.scientificamerican.com/media/inline/imported/the-battery-powered-bullet_2.jpg Electric Flash: The Buckeye Bullet 2.5 hit 307 miles per hour on Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats in 2010 ] Few petroleum-powered cars have ever surpassed 400 miles per hour. Now a group of students plans to do it in an electric vehicle As he was walking to a math class during his freshman year at Ohio State University, R. J. Kromer spotted a poster for a student-run team ... He had never built anything more complex than Lego-based robot kits, but he sent an e-mail to the group asking to join anyway. To his surprise, the team members responded immediately. “I thought there would be all kinds of requirements,” Kromer recalls, “but they said, ‘No, just show up.’” So Kromer headed over to the team's work space at the school's Center for Automotive Research (CAR). He quickly learned that the unique tribe of mostly baby-faced engineers behind the Buckeye Bullet vehicles, a series of world-record-breaking alternative-fuel cars, planned to test his dedication first. Kromer started out in the engineering equivalent of the mail room. For the first few months he was mostly sweeping the shop or arranging and organizing various tools and spare parts. Between custodial tasks, though, senior team members started teaching him about wiring, control systems, and more. Soon he was learning more in the shop than he was in class. The next year two seniors graduated, and Kromer was in charge of electrical engineering. “It turns out if you're willing to not sleep, you can pick up on things pretty fast,” he says. [© 2013 Scientific American, a Division of Nature America, Inc. All Rights Reserved] ... http://www.buckeyebullet.com/ For all EVLN posts use: http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/template/NamlServlet.jtp?macro=search_page&node=413529&query=evln&sort=date Here are today's archive-only EV posts: EVLN: 1967 Toyota 2000GT has got it's own bad boy secrets EVent: 2013 Portland Intl Auto Show 1/24-27 Oregon Convention Center EVLN: Leaf using Teijin’s bio-derived polyester fiber EVLN: $18k Doesn't Look Like the Typical Junk from Overseas r:40km + EVLN: BMW-i/Schneider EVSE partnership in anticipation of launch {brucedp.150m.com} -- View this message in context: http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/EVLN-400-MPH-Buckeye-Bullet-EV-Preview-tp4660737.html Sent from the Electric Vehicle Discussion List mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
