The automotive teams put their work on display on April 30th at the Undergraduate Research Symposium.  The university’s new chancellor, Biddy Martin, was present at the event and visited with the auto teams.  She even went for a ride on the snowmobile team’s IC sled.

Team members demonstrate the IC sled to the new chancellor.

The team visited Oregon High School to talk about our Moovada, the EcoCAR competition, and Earth Day today.  Thanks to Randy Way for helping us set this up.

Dan explains the team's hybrid vehicle demo to Oregon High School students.

The team met with the automotive and electronics students at Oregon High School and talked particularly about the hybrid vehicle design process and opportunities to work with hybrid vehicles.

The Hybrid Vehicle Team’s exhibit at Engineering EXPO 2009 received an honorable mention in the category of Student Organization Exhibits.  Thanks to everybody who helped out over the course of the three days!

The UW Hybrid Vehicle Team plans to travel to Oregon High School for Earth Day, and these plans were featured in an article featuring the plans of schools from throughout the country for this coming Earth Day.  The article has been picked up nationally, even by ABC News.  A link to the story is posted below:

Schools Celebrate the 39th Anniversary of Earth Day

The team would like to give a special thanks to CV Pros for all their help over the years, and their recent help preparing our EV1 for testing.  The team is almost ready to start testing the electric motor we will be using for EcoCAR!