CUER will be holding a black-tie fundraising dinner at 7pm, Wednesday 10th August at Queens’ College Cambridge. For more information, see http://tinyurl.com/cuerDinner11.

CUER’s very own Alisdair McClymont was recently interviewed for an article on the popular technology site, WIRED.

The reporter, Chuck Squatriglia, who writes WIRED’s online blog on electric vehicles and hybrids, dug deeper into CUER’s plans for the 2011 World Solar Challenge and revealed some interesting insights into Alisdair’s expectations for the race.

Check out the article here.

To celebrate their new solar car design, Cambridge University Eco Racing (CUER) are launching a national competition, for school pupils aged from 6 to 14, to design a car for the future. Unlike CUER’s car, the designs will not be restricted to solar power, but the team will still be looking for some exciting and innovative ideas. Competition entries will be judged, in three age categories, by some of CUER’s technical team. Those shortlisted will be invited to the CUER design launch and ‘solar fun day’ event in May.

CUER’s cars are developed to race in the biennial ‘World Solar Challenge’, the ‘Formula One’ of eco-friendly motorsport, which is a 3000 kilometre race across the Australian Outback. In 2009, CUER entered the race for the first time as the only UK team. This year, having developed a much improved car design, CUER will be unveiling their design at a special event in Cambridge.

This design launch event is to be combined with an educational ‘solar fun day’, giving attendees the chance to design and create their own solar powered vehicles, and an award ceremony for the design competition winners. Category winners will be announced at this event, alongside CUER’s new…
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The Race team has been formed following reliability issues in the WSC 2009, which seriously compromised the team’s overall performance. Most weekends members of the team head to Bourne Airfield to drive the car, investigate potential performance gains and test any new equipment. The team also gets involved in PR events, such as the recent trip to Jaguar Land Rover.

Alisdair McClymont gave a presentation about CUER on Thursday, February 10^th 2011 for National Instruments at the National Instruments Technical Symposium in Cambridge. National Instruments are part of SPIP and have donated a CompactRIO and LabVIEW software to the team which are used for on-vehicle instrumentation and control.

Endeavour was travelling the country once again last week when Ansys held a seminar on hybrid electric vehicles. The event was to highlight the different applications of Ansys software in this industry- it is currently used primarily for CFD, which is what CUER uses it for- but it also provided us with a great opportunity to show of Endeavour once again. Our display outside the conference attracted lots of attention, and it was great for us to here the opinions and advice of industry professionals.

On Saturday 6th Nov, Tom Grimble gave a presentation on the project and electric vehicle technology at “Crazy Kit Cars” outreach event at the Cambridge University Engineering Department in front of about 50 children.

They were very interested in the car and asked some of the toughest questions Tom could have imagined!