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DAKSH to India

DAKSH

Last week Sastra University invited us to speak at the innovative DAKSH 2010 Engineering Festival. Its aim is to inspire students and show them the fun side of engineering. They invite students from universities across India to compete in engineering challenges, learn new skills in workshops, and listen to guest speakers talk about their experiences. [...]

Production Line

RGE

With the car needing to be finished ASAP, we drafted in Andy and Clemens today to help speed up progress on the car. While they are both excellent engineers in their respective fields, they haven’t been involved in the day-to-day engineering of the project so far. However, we all arrived nice and early this morning, [...]

Sustainable Energy Futures Lecture by RGE

On Thursday, newly qualified Dr Dave Howey and I presented to the Sustainable Energy Futures MSc students at Imperial as part of their Sustainable Transport module. This marked the start of RGEs education campaign, so it was great to have a home audience the first time round. The session was kicked-off by Dr Ralph Clague [...]

Workshop Music

A couple of days ago, I had a rather peculiar email from a fan of the project who asked what kind of music we listen to when we’re working on the car. Well, in case there is anyone else out there that also desires to know this information, here’s the answer! While we’re working on [...]

RGE goes Karting!

Toby congratulating Andy on a race well raced!

Back at Autosport in January, 5 members of the RGE team were fortunate enough to meet Will Tew, Founder and Director of 3T Racing Ltd. He has a very cool job; basically he runs and organises the British Schools and British Universities Karting Championships (www.bskc.co.uk and www.bukc.co.uk) and he also gets to race the karts [...]

Engineering Update

Time has just flown by since the Autosport show back in January. The last time we blogged we were right in the middle of displaying the car for four days at the show. We had a brilliant time there and all the hard work that we put in to get the car ready really paid [...]

Day 2: Autosport

Wow. Firstly, apologies for not doing the blog yesterday, the team were all up at 5am and after a hard day selling the project we all fell asleep before we had time to tell you about it. These two days have been far beyond what any of the team were expecting. There have been so [...]

Charging up for Autosport!

It was my first day up in the Radical factory on Friday and it is an epic place, the fastest car in the world (the actual one that broke the Nurburg Ring lap record) was only 5m away from our car! Anyway, back to our project, it’s been a hard week of work for the [...]

Improved Team and Blog Pages

After much deliberating we finally settled on the new format for the team page. This one has the individual profiles pop up as you roll over them, it’s a bit cleaner and this way we can fit a lot more information in the same space. Hopefully it’s a bit more interactive and informative than the [...]

Prepping the car for Autosport

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With only 3 weeks to go now until Autosport International (the largest motorsport exhibition in the world), the team has been busy preparing the car for exhibition. We will be displaying our car on the Radical stand alongside some of there very impressive vehicles including the SR8 which recently smashed the Nurburgring Nordschleife (see here [...]

USHUAIA
26,500 km done!
November 03, 2011
46
Rio Grande
November 03, 2011
5th
November
All day
RAC Future Car Challenge
Brighton to London
9th
November
All day
NIDays London
National Instruments