Formula Hybrid racing at Illinois Institute of Technology: Academic Year 2007/2008

Author

Sibley, Jonathan ; Wirasingha, S.G. ; Emadi, A.

Author_Institution

Illinois Inst. of Technol., Chicago, IL

fYear

2008

fDate

3-5 Sept. 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

The formula hybrid competition is a student event where teams compete against one another in a realworld engineering environment. Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) fielded a team to compete in the second annual competition in May 2008 against 14 other schools. A true passion for designing, improving, and racing hybrid electric vehicles (HEV) has evolved at IIT from this remarkable experience. The ACE team competed with two student-designed hybrid vehicles of different drivetrain types, composed of a wide variety of cutting edge technologies, including lithiumpolymer batteries, continuous variable transmissions, and permanent magnet synchronous machines.

Keywords

electric vehicles; permanent magnet machines; secondary cells; synchronous machines; Illinois Institute of Technology; continuous variable transmissions; drivetrain types; formula hybrid competition; formula hybrid racing; hybrid electric vehicles; lithiumpolymer batteries; permanent magnet synchronous machines; realworld engineering environment; second annual competition; Automotive engineering; Battery powered vehicles; Digital control; Educational institutions; Hybrid electric vehicles; Permanent magnet machines; Propulsion; Testing; USA Councils; Vehicle driving; ACE Formula Hybrid; Education; Formula Hybrid competition; Hybrid drive train; IIT Racing; chassis;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vehicle Power and Propulsion Conference, 2008. VPPC '08. IEEE

Conference_Location

Harbin

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1848-0

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1849-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VPPC.2008.4677670

Filename

4677670