We've been trying to work in new rules for lithium but have not passed/published anything yet. There are some accommodations in the rules and some are using lithium but it's still mostly two 12V SLA's. Grin Cycles can make a CycleAnalyst that will shut the system down after 1kWh is used, so that would be part of it. Right now there is only enough funding and volunteer(s) to keep the basic organization operating but I'm looking forward to getting some grant money. We are closing out our first local micro-grant and then we can apply for more. We started laying out curriculum, sent hundreds of outreach emails to central Oregon (restricted per grant), put together a simple drive kit and will give some away, and made CAD models and are trying to set up a GrabCAD group with wheels, motors, etc. I'd really love to see this program take off (get funding) and expand like Bill was talking about in New Zealand. I think there is potential to include more practical vehicles and more competitions, and bring it to a national level. The obstacles are 1) knowledgeable teachers (with extra time and money) which is why I tried to develop curriculum and kits to help get started, 2) cost (it's expensive to build even a simple EV) which is why I wanted to sponsor new teams with a complete drive system kit and 3) events are few and far between with increasing insurance costs (energy company and Toyota sponsorships keep them going).
Help share with people to let them know - www.ElectrathonAmerica.org Thanks! Gary On Sat, Apr 23, 2022 at 8:25 AM Peter VanDerWal via EV <ev@lists.evdl.org> wrote: > Does it still require using a lead-acid battery? > > My PGP public key: https://vanderwal.us/evdl_pgp.key > > April 21, 2022 12:04 PM, "Gary Krysztopik via EV" <ev@lists.evdl.org> > wrote: > > > I'm wondering how many have heard of or participated in Electrathon > > racing? We'd like to grow the program by getting the word out and getting > > some funding (there are both 501(c)3 and 501(c)7 parts to the > > organization). So if you know anyone that might want to build a simple EV > > race car, or if you know someone with too much money, please let them > know > > about the program. The website is being reworked, and we are offering > > simple drive system kits to get going as well as creating a CAD > environment > > with all the parts to play with. Hopefully more coming soon. The most > > activity is in FL, TX, KS, NE, and CT where there are regular events > > scheduled. > > > > www.ElectrathonAmerica.org > > > > Thanks, > > Gary Krysztopik > > -------------- next part -------------- > > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > > URL: < > http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20220421/890cead4/attachment.html > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Address messages to ev@lists.evdl.org > > No other addresses in TO and CC fields > > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > > ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive > > LIST INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > _______________________________________________ > Address messages to ev@lists.evdl.org > No other addresses in TO and CC fields > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/ > LIST INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20220423/2056e67b/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ Address messages to ev@lists.evdl.org No other addresses in TO and CC fields UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/ LIST INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org
