First Meeting

04/10/2022

Meet our new team!

We have a new team this year and are excited to be working together in the creation of a new car, which will ultimately be raced at a Greenpower event. Our first meeting was spent in the distribution of roles, to effectively manage the creation of the car. More importantly however, was getting to know each other.

Our teams are as follows: CAD, Electronics, PR and telemetry.

CAD - This team will be in charge of designing the car. They will model the car in 3D and then use this to simulate the use of different materials on the center of gravity or the strength of various components.

Electronics - This team will be managing all electronic aspects of the car, such as the brake lights and most importantly the motor.

PR - The smallest team, in charge of maintaining this website and getting sponsorships for the car.

Telemetry - This is about functions on the car such as sensors which will record data allowing for analysis of the car's components during the race. This will allow us to see how well batteries and motors are working and allow us to improve these. They may also create a digital display where the driver will be able to see statistics such as laps and speed.

We are a small team of 14 students two of whom helped with the previous car and 1 teacher. As you can see, this is a mainly student run team compared to other Greenpower teams.

Our previous car

Previously, other students at Judd have built a car and raced it at Greenpower. We are lucky enough to be helped by some of them this year. Other team members have raced the old car at Goodwood and so have useful experience.

Below are some photos of last year's car, the "JuddHound"

This car has a metal frame with plywood sides and a foam nose. It was very successful, finishing 34th nationally out of 175 cars, with a best distance of 33.96km

Our Plan

We plan on building a brand new car this year, as well as optimizing our previous car. We will then race both of them once they are done, in a few years time.