Solar power at the start: the ELHA racing team
As part of the ongoing cooperation with the Franz-Stock-Realschule Hövelhof, ELHA supports the school team of the "Bobby Car Solarcup 2018".
"The support provided by our apprentice Nikolas Relard, who assists the team with construction on a weekly basis, deserves special mention. The current construction status is already very advanced, as shown below and also in the regional publications: The pupils are tense: In the coming weeks, it's off to the tuning workshop, where the current build status will be checked for admissibility. Has everything been installed correctly and in accordance with the regulations? How will our current status be assessed by the professionals?
The young technology enthusiasts from Franz-Stock-Realschule Hövelhof are designing and building a solar-powered bobby car and will be competing in the OWL-wide "BOBBY CAR SOLARCUP 2018" on 16 September 2018.
The students asked ELHA-MASCHINENBAU Liemke KG to be their partner company in order to receive technical support for the construction project. Also enthusiastic about the project and the idea of bringing pupils closer to technology at first hand, ELHA gladly accepted the project partnership and assumed all project costs incurred. Since then, the ELHA racing team has spent two hours a week building the Bobby Car together with a trainee from the company. The team has access to the machinery and tools in the training workshop. What motivates the pupils to take part in a school project in their own free time is clearly "the interest in driving themselves". It's also simply "fun to tinker and find solutions to problems." The team only sees potential for improvement in the speed of the Bobby Car: "We can only drive at 5 km/h - it needs to go even faster." Because on 16 September 2018, the focus will be on speed as well as mastering the skills course.
We wish the entire team every success for the following days of further development, expansion and the competition on 16 September 2018 in Bielefeld! Further information about the project can be found on the following website: http://www.bobby-car-solar-cup.de
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