Hybrid Car Competition

Hybrid car competition is an annual competition for college and university students to design, build, and race formula race cars with gas-electric hybrid drive trains.

The teams must

design,
build, and
compete

an open-wheel, single-seat racecar.

The car must be done to a formula that emphasizes drive train innovation and fuel efficiency.

As it is, the idea is to push boundaries in both innovative approaches to hybrid technology and chassis design, for more fuel efficient and powerful designs, which can then push the boundary even for those models aimed at real life applications.

The chassis designs are aimed to come from the Formula SAE competition:

students.sae.org/competitions/formulaseries/

Then, the engine in those designs are switched to hybrids to participate in the Formula Hybrid competition, leading to a 2-year design cycle for each design.

The series was formulated by the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth, and the competition website is located at formula-hybrid.org.


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