{"id":655,"date":"2010-05-10T09:27:40","date_gmt":"2010-05-10T13:27:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/example.org\/racing-toward-a-greener-future-with-formula-hybrid"},"modified":"2010-05-10T09:27:40","modified_gmt":"2010-05-10T13:27:40","slug":"racing-toward-a-greener-future-with-formula-hybrid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/2010\/05\/racing-toward-a-greener-future-with-formula-hybrid.html","title":{"rendered":"Racing toward a greener future with Formula Hybrid"},"content":{"rendered":"

 <\/o:p><\/span>As a featured arena for NASCAR
\npaint-swappin\u2019, the New Hampshire Motor Speedway<\/a>
\nin Loudon, N.H., ain\u2019t exactly blooming green. Stock cars consume gas and
\nrubber like Mountain Dew and corn chips, and no one complains if you leave your rig idling.<\/o:p><\/p>\n

<\/o:p>Last week, however, was a little
\ndifferent at NHMS as 30 college and university teams from US, India, Italy,
\nRussia, and Taiwan competed in the fourth annual Formula Hybrid International Competition<\/a>. <\/p>\n

<\/o:p><\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

<\/o:p>Formula Hybrid challenges college
\nand university students to design, build, and race high-performance, plug-in
\nhybrid vehicles. Building on the Formula SAE program, Formula Hybrid adds an
\nextra level of complexity: fuel efficiency. Teams were limited to 2.3 liters
\n(0.61 gal) of fuel, which equates to 22.5 mpg \u2013 a pittance for a race car.<\/o:p><\/p>\n

The competition was co-sponsored by DS SolidWorks and organized by the Thayer School of Engineering<\/a> at Dartmouth, a SolidWorks customer just up the road from the track (see today\u2019s news release).<\/p>\n

<\/o:p><\/p>\n

<\/o:p>In addition to fuel efficiency, scoring considers
\ninspection, presentation (the business case), design, acceleration, autocross
\n(acceleration, cornering and braking), and students\u2019
\nunderstanding of their design\u2019s environmental impact.<\/o:p><\/p>\n

<\/o:p>\u201cI like the [competition\u2019s] engineering
\naspect,\u201d Dartmouth captain Ben Sampson told the Citizen
\nof Laconia<\/a> newspaper. \u201cTo me, there\u2019s just no better way to show off
\nengineering than with a performance car.\u201d<\/o:p><\/p>\n

The overall winner was perennial
\nFormula Hybrid powerhouse <\/span>Politecnico
\ndi Torino<\/a>. The other winners are <\/span>here<\/a>. Congratulations to all, and thanks for working for a greener future.<\/span><\/span>
<\/o:p><\/p>\n

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