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Student venture RORMaxx Automotive utilizes ultracapacitors, solar panels, and airflow recovery to construct an alternative energy vehicle. RORMaxx Automotive, a student venture out of Harvard-Westlake High School, is constructing a wind and electric powered vehicle. Eighteen-year-old high school seniors Rory Handel and Maxx Bricklin are developing the first student-built wind-assisted vehicle called Formula AE

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The ultracapacitors utilized in the vehicle will provide easily accessible power to the car at all times, avoiding the voltage drop problem in normal batteries. The ultracapacitors will address the high acceleration demands of a car, boosting the Formula AE car from zero to sixty miles per hour in less than 4 seconds. The vehicle will be limited by its gearing to a top speed around 155 miles per hour. Formula AE will implement solar technology in the form of newly developed flexible thin-film photovoltaic cells. Laminated with a flexible flouropolymer, the cells will be protected from any damage and will be flexible enough to fit the aerodynamic form of the vehicle

RORMaxx Automotive, a student venture out of Harvard-Westlake High School, is constructing a wind and electric powered vehicle. Eighteen-year-old high school seniors Rory Handel and Maxx Bricklin are developing the first student-built wind-assisted vehicle called Formula AE. The ultracapacitors utilized in the vehicle will provide easily accessible power to the car at all times, avoiding the voltage drop problem in normal batteries. The ultracapacitors will address the high acceleration demands of a car, boosting the Formula AE car from zero to sixty miles per hour in less than 4 seconds. The vehicle will be limited by its gearing to a top speed around 155 miles per hour.

Formula AE will implement solar technology in the form of newly developed flexible thin-film photovoltaic cells. Laminated with a flexible flouropolymer, the cells will be protected from any damage and will be flexible enough to fit the aerodynamic form of the vehicle. The battery of the car is projected to have a range greater than 200 miles per full charge, and should handle a full one-hour race without difficulty. The charge time of the battery is less than 1.5 hours, but a prototype battery currently in development could cut the charge time to just six minutes. Finally, the vehicle will recover wind flow energy using intakes channeling air to a turbine fan. By constructing ducting to achieve an optimal wind speed, an appropriate generator Awill convert the airflow into usable energy for the car.

Although wind is not frequently contemplated of as a latent source of energy for automobiles, two aspiring high school students in California are doing studies into the possibilities. The founders of RORMaxx Rory Handel and Max Bricklin are working out the minor difficulties on an electric vehicle chiefly propelled by the wind and the sun.Only in its infancy, their Formula AE race vehicle exists only in an early-design stage. The race vehicle that come with alternative energy will be propelled by a 285 hp AC induction motor, using the most current available sustainable energy technologies. Lightweight, and extremely thin SolarPly paneling will recharge the vehicle’s lithium-phosphate batteries, at the same time adding more to the vehicle’s range to between 15% to 30%. Once mobile, the four air vents channel airflow into four small turbines. These turbines generate electric charges which are stored in ultracapacitors for instant utilization, something that is essential to rapid acceleration. Details and photos after the jump!