1998 EVCO Electrathon - Official Web Page The 1998 EVCO Electrathon, where high school teams will match their design and construction skills and months of effort against teams from other schools where it counts - on the track! The objective of the Electrathon contest is to travel as far as possible in one-hour in a single-seater vehicle using only the energy available from approximately 30 kilograms of lead-acid batteries. The vehicles must comply with a set of rules (e.g. 3 or more wheels, safety devices). Creativity in the design and construction of the vehicles is encouraged. The Electrathon cars are much like the solar cars that take part of international competitions, except that they do not have the (expensive) solar panels, allowing them to be constructed on limited budgets. Like larger on-road electric cars, the Electrathon cars produce no air pollution in operation, and can be virtually silent.
Design/Build Workshops Global Light and Power offers workshops developed for use in schools, clubs, neighborhood groups, and social organizations who want to quickly learn basic skills in actual construction of Electric Vehicle and Alternative Energy systems. All workshops consist of actually building a complete system which the sponsor keeps for their own use. Workshop costs include all components used in the demonstration system built. After an introductory review of the elements of the system, workshop participants actually perform the system construction under supervision. Workshops offered: Electrathon Competition Engineering; Electric Vehicle Conversions; Basic Home Power Systems; and Water Pumping With Solar Electric.
Electrathon Competition News Electrathon Competition News is an independent newsletter sponsored by Global Light and Power. It was started in 1991 to promote and organize the first 3-race Electrathon series held in the US. Since then ECN has been carried in several magazines and as an independent publication presenting the most comprehensive news, articles, and information about one of the fastest growing Electric Vehicle Competition activities in the world. This site presents further work of ECN including standardized rules and regulations that have been adopted by many independent Electrathon groups, suggestions of designing and building a vehicle, and our work toward developing a national/international competition and educational format.
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SAE's Electrathon Home Page The Electrathon Race is held annually in Florida and other States. The Electrathon race is an event that has teams design and build one man long range electric vehicles. The race lasts one hour and the victor of the race has gone the farthest distance during that hour on a single charge. All vehicles run on a DC system that has 24 volts or less.
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