These pictures are from last week's Formula Hybrid at the New Hampshire speedway. McGill won the competition, with Embry-Riddle second, Illinois Inst. of Tech third and Dartmouth at 4th place.

Interesting thing to see one of your team's old cars transformed into a hybrid...

Please don't stop posting photos fellas, what sort of technology was on these cars? Any regenerative breaking?

With KERS suposedly coming into f1 next year there should be some pritty exciting stuff in this field.

hey mike, i believe, in my first post, the last picture shows the regenerative braking from McGill's University car. It could probably be the only car with that feature. Dartmouth might have one too, but i cant remember for sure.

A lot of these students are Electrical or Computer major with the exception of Embry-Riddle. They're all mechanical engineers. The closest we have to Electrical engineers are Engineering Physics students.

Most of these guys that i talk to either participating for the first time, or from other SAE collegiate competition, Snowmobile, HPV etc. So i dont know if they know of this forum exist, let alone post pictures from the FH competition. I didnt take that many pictures, sorry.

Here's a link to some more pictures from the NC State Hybrid Team (WEEL)
Our team ALSO purely consisted of mechanical engineering students, however
unlike these other schools, we were only a rocking a crew of about 10 total.

http://picasaweb.google.com/mas0301/ForumlaHybrid2008?pli=1

krutin, Embry-Riddle came to the competition with about 10-15ppl but rest asure, less than 5 ppl actually worked on the car.

Being an engineer that works with high voltage battery packs regularly, some of these cars are pretty scary.

I don't understand why this competition can't be folded into FSAE with a bit of sanity added and some safety.

For example:
-max battery pack 10kg
-max battery pack voltage 36V nominal (unless ultra caps, than up to 52V MAX)
-all electrical contained inside main safety structure

It would still allow for a fair bit of design freedom without the probability of electrocuting students. We have to be honest here, the last thing a student will worry about is their personal safety.

Would make a good addition to spice up FSAE and keep the students from hanging what looks like two 200V Toyota prius battery pack from the side of the car.

Akos