Sooo, after a long blog-silence, I have a long entry here to bring you all up to speed! We last left off with the move into the garage and the grab of a van-full of Imperial furniture! Wow, so much has happened since then… Firstly, last week. It was organised mayhem in the best possible [...]

two men and a ven! today we picked up some tables and chairs for the new garage – thx to Imperial College for their support on this one…. the gear has made our garage a whole lot more workable… now we can sit down while we solder together those wiring looms!!!

Alright guys, yesterday we moved the car to our new garage. It was a shame to remove it from the foyer at Imperial College – it seemed to fit in so nicely there. BUT on the other hand we want to finish building it so we cruise around in our Radical EV Here is the [...]

Hi Everyone, As some of you may know, we have been trying out documentary producers to see which one we would most like to have film us on our epic adventure. We have very happily settled on Claudio von Planta, an extremely accomplished cameraman that filmed the Long Way Round and Long Way Down featuring [...]

The car arrived on Wednesday …or did it? Maybe it was just a dream, a collective dream nested in the mind of the team of exhausted engineers. Well the illusion is persistent; see this picture taken on Thursday. Why don’t you come Imperial College, Exhibition Road, see it for yourself and let us know it [...]

the full rolling chassis with bodywork was delivered to Imperial College this morning and is now sitting in the Business School Foyer!!! the whole team is absolutely buzzing – this is a day we have been waiting for for a long time! thanks to Phil from Radical for the great driving with the trailer this [...]

Another week of hard work up at the Radical factory has left us with a car increasingly resembling the finished rolling chassis! A few bits of bodywork are still left to do but so far everything fits neatly and just looks fantastic. Again, thanks goes out to the guys at Radical – especially Matt and [...]

Today a large shipment of control hardware arrived from National Instruments today. NI kindly sponsored a whole range of equipment including a CompactRio, touchscreen and modules for the CompactRio, and the team (especially Alec and Toby) are itching to play with them! This equipment is effectively the brain of the car, and will be programmed [...]

From Friday 23rd October, RGE’s engineers have been going up to Radical Sportscars to help assemble the “car parts” of the car i.e. all the suspension, steering column, brakes, bodywork etc. This is due to be finished at the end of this week, and then will then come down to London for final kitting out [...]

Hi, I’m Clemens and I’m the Chief Operating Manager for RGE, which means I manage all the logistics for the team. I would like to tell you about RGE’s very exciting day yesterday… Firstly, all our batteries have arrived safe and sound all the way from Thunder Sky in Shenzhen, China. Despite the fact that [...]