Colorado School of Mines engineering students are embarking on what they see as the ultimate, relevant senior project: creating an electric vehicle burly enough to endure the Baja 1000 off-road rac…
AURORA — Colorado School of Mines engineering students are hurling themselves into what they see as the ultimate, relevant senior project: creating an electric vehicle burly enough to endure the Baja 1000 off-road race through unforgiving Mexican desert.“We’re going to fix a problem” by improving EVs as alternatives to gas-powered cars, said Titus Reed, 23, whose role on the 14-member CSM team includes driving.
Over the past few months, they’ve relied on email solicitations and cold calls to raise $50,000 and made useful motorsports connections with racing veterans at Fox Factory, which designs suspension components, and innovators at Panasonic, which is expanding its EV battery operations. The money’s still less than what they’ll need and, last week, the students were worrying whether they’ll manage to complete, much less win, the race in November.
“If we were to complete the Baja 1000, we’d get data on the parts we are using, and we could supply it to Tesla. That could really help them,” Schmidt said. “I was astounded,” said RMH Group Chief of Electrical Engineering Max Billington, an adjunct professor at Colorado School of Mines, who’d taught several of the students. He lauded their grassroots effort to do “what has to get done” as visionary.
State and federal governments have been promoting networks of charging stations where drivers would wait several hours to recharge depleted batteries. Meanwhile, prices for EVs that rival gas-powered favorites for performance remain higher than what the bulk of U.S. consumers can afford — even with tax incentives — due to battery costs.
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