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http://www.wishtv.com/dpp/news/local/north_central/2-students-start-electric-car-business [image] 2 students start electric car business 13 Mar 2013 [video flash] BOONE COUNTY, Ind. (WISH) - How much ambition did you have as a college student? Were you ready to start a company? Two Purdue University engineer students say they are and already did. Students Drew Westrick and Grant Chapman and a few friends created E-V-C Racing. They've done enough to earn an invitation to Canada, to the Vancouver Auto Show. The duo will show the electric go-karts they design and hope to sell them. The potential is even greater. “What we're trying to do here is push the current technology to its limits,” Chapman said. “Find (those limits) and maybe go a little bit past." "So, hopefully, the technology we build will be in your car 10, 20 years from now,” he added. The young men said they're trying to buy from Indiana suppliers whenever possible - from the batteries to the kart chassis'. They have created a kart that can reach a top speed of about 75 mph and a battery that will last 15 miles during a race. [© 2013 LIN Television All Rights Reserved] http://www.electricvehicleclub.org/?p=689 EVC Kart Wins Third Annual Electric Vehicle Grand Prix! by Drew Westrick May 2 2012 We are proud to announce that the Electric Vehicle Club took home first place at the third annual Purdue Electric Vehicle Grand Prix this last weekend. The race started out a little rocky with a black flag and tire coming off within the first three laps of the race. Yellow cautions were abundant, but with driver Jimmy Simpson behind the wheel of an otherwise dominant kart we were able to fight back to the top with a drive, great energy strategy, and a final sprint to the finish line. In the final laps of the race we were able to improve upon our record setting practice time of 26.1 seconds to finish the day with an overall fastest lap time of 25.9. We were just 0.1 seconds shy of the poll setting lap time for the gas Grand Prix this year! Included below are some photos from the event. The EVC Racing team will be back in action again on May 12th at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway on opening day at the track. We hope to see you all there. Kart Specs: Motor: HPEV AC-9 Three Phase AC Induction Controller: Curtis 1236 72V-300A Battery: Custom Build with AllCell phase change material using 600 (20s-30p) 18650s (Prototype Cells from Tesla’s Roadster Model) BMS System: Custom wireless BMS controller and telemetry system (TI based) using Linear 6803 BMS boards. Frame: Modified 2002 Margay Fastest Lap Time: 25.94s (EV Record at Purdue Track) [images http://www.flickr.com/photos/62443897@N08/6979946722/in/photostream/ video http://youtube.com/watch?v=_CTDVtBaCYY EVGP #17 hillzofvalp May 1, 2012 Cold day ] ... http://www.evcracing.com/ ... https://www.facebook.com/evcracing ... https://twitter.com/EVCRacing [images] 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: Rare 1940s Brequet electric car discovered in French garage EVLN: Indian government plans to set up public EVSE @petrol-bunks EVLN: Leaf EV showcased @ ucsi.edu.my Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia EVLN: Fully charged VEVA Advocate takes on our gas-addicted society + EVLN: 1984 Peugeot 205 EV Was Ahead of Its Time {brucedp.150m.com} -- View this message in context: http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/EVLN-EVC-racing-Purdue-students-start-up-video-tp4661887.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)
