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 It's time to pack for the Shell Eco Marathon at Lausitz track in Germany next week. This weekend, going five Swedish-efficient cars in the road, two from Chalmers, two from the Royal Institute of Technology and one from the university. KTH was not its all-new design Sleipner clear until yesterday when they showed up for the audience at the so-called Mille potty at KTH campus in Stockholm. No I have not had time to test drive. I hope we have time for a few laps on Gillinge path before we leave for Germany on Sunday, said the driver Tina Runesson to New Technology. Sleipner Replacement Agilis has been with since 2006. And at Chalmers University in Gothenburg, people are working hard on the new engine to hit the car Vera, who has been with since 2007 and Sweden record of 1243 kilometers on one liter of gasoline. Unfortunately we are not sure if the new engine to Vera has time to be ready in time. The group around the engine has been running on and it is ready to be deployed in Vera, but we'll do some tests to the first, "says Sven Andersson, head of ekobilarna at Chalmers. The catalog is better prepared and has done several test runs of this year's Skilzi, who became the best of the three Swedish Eco Marathon cars in the prototype class last year. All three Swedish cars in protypklassen is extremely aerodynamically designed tricycle powered by a modified Honda engine 25 cc. KTH and Chalmers also compete in the 'Urban Concept class, with cars that will be built so that they could actually be inspected by city cars. LTU will not stand in the years that class, despite great success with Baldos I and II Baldos. Chalmers will compete for the third consecutive year of pain, which is driven by internal combustion engine, and the Royal Institute of series hybrid Spiros, with fuel cells and electric motors. Spiros has a new fuel cell stack from the Power Cell. We strongly believe in the said project leader Mikael Hellgren, teachers at KTH, the New Technology. Also Smarter from Gothenburg has been modified but is basically the same as last year. We have put a lot of work on the front end, with new suspension, new carbon fiber wheels and new brakes front and rear, "said Sven Andersson. This is how it went for the Swedish cars at last year's races in the Shell Eco Marathon. Skilzi, LTU 14th place with 1201 km / l Vera, Chalmers University: 15th place with 1056 km / l Agilis, KTH 36th place with 481 km / l Smarter, Chalmers University: 16th place with 154 km / l Baldos II, LTU 17th place with 137 km / l Spiros, KTH did not finish due to operational problems with fuel cell For both classes will race out to design and build a small vehicle that will transport a person as far as possible the equivalent of 1 liter of gasoline. The cars run six laps around the track. Then you measure how much fuel has been spent and calculates how far you would get on a gallon of gasoline if you could continue to run until the soup ran out. The world record is 4896 kilometers. It is the route Ystad-Haparanda back and forth! Why will not the Swedish cars so far? Why is it always the same French team that wins victories? Both Sven Andersson, Chalmers and Mikael Hellgren at KTH says much the same thing. In Sweden we have it here as part of teaching. It is the students themselves who design and build the cars. In several other countries, it is teachers who are based, sometimes with help from the industry, they say. |
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