RGE would like to welcome KPMG as our second Gold Sponsor. Read on to discover how the team went to the Houses of Parliament in our quest for sponsorship.
At the beginning of this week Nik and I went to pick up our long awaited tyres which were kindly sponsored to us by Continental AG, a well known and respected developer of technology all around the world. They also agreed to sponsor us with €9,000 of cash as well thereby helping out the ...
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. It ...
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 ...
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 of ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 many ...
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 ...