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Archive for the ‘News’ Category

Bringing the blog back up to date!

December 17th, 2009 | Author: Alex
Part of the team outside the Houses of Parliament

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 ...

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Kitting out the Garage…

December 4th, 2009 | Author: Toby
Two Men and a Ven

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!!!

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Move to new garage…

December 3rd, 2009 | Author: Toby
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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 car ...

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Claudio von Planta and his amazing video

November 19th, 2009 | Author: Alex

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 ...

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Hard to believe

November 6th, 2009 | Author: Alex
car at Imperial

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 ...

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THE CAR HAS ARRIVED!!!

November 4th, 2009 | Author: Toby

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 morning. ...

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Rolling Chassis Soon Ready to be Delivered

November 1st, 2009 | Author: Toby

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 ...

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Arrival of NI Hardware

October 26th, 2009 | Author: Alex
Opening the Box

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 ...

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Rolling chassis coming along nicely!

October 25th, 2009 | Author: Alex
Rear View of Suspension and Motor Plates

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 of ...

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Amazing RGE Day

October 20th, 2009 | Author: Clemens
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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 ...

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