http://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/back-to-dunmurray-delorean-belfast-reunion-celebrates-1980s-miracle-1.2198841 ... electrical-engineering students from Queen’s University Belfast are working on an electric version of a DeLorean. May 4, 2015 Amanda Ferguson
[dated] [video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzXDwZEgkZ8 QUB Electric DeLorean - Electrical Engineering at Queen's ... Video for Queen's University Belfast electric DeLorean 3:13 Feb 16, 2015 - Uploaded by QUB2000 http://www.facebook.com/QUBEV Electrical and Electronic Engineering students at Queen's University ... ] ... http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-27147947 DeLorean: Queen's University Belfast students build all-electric iconic car By Mervyn Jess BBC News NI 25 April 2014 [image http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/624/media/images/74436000/jpg/_74436334_p1000147.jpg The vehicle was brought back to Belfast from a cow shed in County Leitrim ] Media caption The students are hoping to make the car run on electric power An iconic DeLorean car built in Belfast in the 1980s is the centrepiece of a special project by students in the city. The DeLorean was made famous when one featured as Marty McFly's time machine in the Back to the Future films. Instead of a flux capacitor, students at Queen's University are aiming to give a highly-charged boost to the iconic vehicle. They have embarked on a year-long project that will have them looking back... to the future. Their mission is to restore and electrify the DeLorean. The vehicle was brought back to Belfast from a cow shed in County Leitrim. It had been built at DeLorean's Dunmurry plant on the outskirts of the city in the early 1980s and shipped to the United States. After spending years on the sunny roads of South Carolina, it was eventually returned to Ireland by a car collector. Now the gull-winged stainless steel car has been stripped down and the task is about working out how to bring it roaring back into the 21st century. Undergraduate Jake Mercer is a member of the project team. He said the car was getting an electrical makeover. "It'll have cool speedos and you will be able to Bluetooth your phone to it. This is all part of a learning project. However, the restored DeLorean will have just as much charisma as the old car," he said. Another member of the restoration team is Nikki Jackson who has a close family connection to the DeLorean motor car. "My granddad actually worked for DeLorean at the time they were being built, so I felt it would be a good idea to work on one of the cars myself. I never pictured myself doing something like this when I started studying at Queen's," she said. 'Electrified' Fellow student Niamh Tohill is equally excited by the project. "It was a real wow factor when I first walked into the garage and saw the DeLorean sitting there. It was like... it's real... it's there," she said. Dr David Laverty, a lecturer in electrical engineering at Queen's, is overseeing the project. He said using a DeLorean was a "no-brainer" once they were offered the chance to get their hands on one. "The purpose of the project is to encourage school kids to consider careers in electrical engineering," he said. "I was a big Back to the Future fan when I was growing up. The car remains iconic and well known amongst people of all ages. So when we were looking for a project I thought, wouldn't it be really cool to build an electric car out of a DeLorean." They aim to have the car "electrified" by October 2015. So it is pedal to the metal for these students, and as Dr Emmett Brown in Back to the Future might say: "Where they're going, they won't need roads." [© 2015 BBC] ... http://pureenergycentre.com/a-delorean-car-converted-into-an-electric-vehicle-by-students/ A DeLorean Car Converted Into An Electric Vehicle By Students January 9, 2014 By Pure Energy Centre On 6th June 2013 a project was launched at Queens University in Belfast, enabling 10 students to convert a DeLorean into an electric vehicle! http://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/eeecs/News/Title,481608,en.html QUB Electric DeLorean Project [image http://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/eeecs/News/Image1optional,481608,en.jpg QUB DeLorean electric car ] Electrical and Electronic Engineering students at Queen's University are undertaking a novel project which involves the conversion of a 1981 DeLorean sports car from a petrol engine to one operated by electrical propulsion. This unique project is being is being led by Dr David Laverty, a lecturer in the School. Belfast is the home of the DeLorean Motor Company, with the original manufacturing plant located just five miles from where the car will be converted into the Car of the Future. It is remembered for the one model it produced — the distinctive stainless steel DeLorean DMC-12 sports car featuring gull-wing doors. The DeLorean DMC-12 shot to worldwide fame in the Back to the Future movie trilogy as the car made into a time machine by eccentric scientist Doctor Emmett L. Brown. The QUB Electric DeLorean project is sponsored and supported by Northern Ireland Electricity (NIE) as part of their engineering education activities. Electric Vehicles present great opportunities for decarbonisation of transport, but the technologies and electrical infrastructure required to support them will require a new generation of Electrical Engineers. The DeLorean will be restored and converted to use an electric motor and battery pack by a team of undergraduate students from the various educational pathways offered by the School of EEECS. Dr Laverty is aiming to have the QUB Electric DeLorean on the road by 21 October 2015…the day Marty McFly arrives in the future! Why not follow the progress of the QUB Electric DeLorean project – Blog – Follow Brian and Kenny (final year students working on the car) Facebook: fac ebook.com/QUBEV Twitter: @QUBDeLorean [© Queen's University Belfast 2015] ... https://sites.google.com/site/qubdelorean/ QUB Electric DeLorean http://www.firebox.com/product/4907/Electric-DeLorean-DMCEV Electric DeLorean DMCEV - buy at Firebox.com But this isn't just any DeLorean, it's an electric DeLorean. ... But at least the Electric DeLorean's full leather look interior is suitably ... Sean - 16th June 2014. [U.S.A.] http://www.electricdelorean.com/ Electric Delorean Project! ... recently featured on several news programs and in the New York ... ... http://delorean.com/dmcev/ DMCev - by DeLorean Motor Company and Epic EV ... [video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hoyb4ueNh2s NEW!!! 2015 Delorean DMC EV 1:52 Feb 14, 2013 - 2 min - Uploaded by THE LEXUS HYBRID POWER Delorean Electric surprises in New York, will cost $95000 in 2015 First announced last October ... ] For EVLN posts use: http://evdl.org/evln/ {brucedp.150m.com} -- View this message in context: http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/QUB-Electric-DeLorean-on-the-road-by-2016-tp4675441.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)
