Vehicle Design Summit
In less than six weeks’ time, the participants of the Vehicle Design Summit in Boston had to design, build and test an environment-friendly car. This was the challenge during the two-week top conference for solar cars and other alternative vehicles at the very temple of Engineering Sciences: the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Putting theory into practice
Primary goals are the exchange of ideas and bringing these insights into practice. The first week they had the opportunity to gather as much information as possible, in order to show their engineering talent during the second week.
Ready-to-use
Unlike the solar car, where the aerodynamics and velocity were all that mattered, this vehicle had to be user-friendly and functional. But although the bar was raised, Saphir Faid and Jeroen Van Aken, together with two other GROUP T engineers from the first Umicore Solar Team, managed to design a perfectly good fuel cell car within the time limit.
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