Archive for February, 2010

DAKSH to India

DAKSH

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 ...

Production Line

RGE

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 ...

Sustainable Energy Futures Lecture by RGE

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 ...

Workshop Music

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 ...

RGE goes Karting!

Toby congratulating Andy on a race well raced!

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 ...

Engineering Update

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 ...