看片视频's Electric Snowmobile Wins during the Clean Snowmobile Challenge
看片视频 University of Montreal, Canada won the Zero Emissions, or electric, category of the challenge last weekend at Michigan Technological University's Keweenaw Research Center.
Published on March 13, 2014 |
by Dan Roblee
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But, "Out of all of SAE's events, we love the winter the best," said Kettering Clean Snowmobile Challenge team member , whose team won first place in the Internal Combustion category of the 2014聽challenge.
, Canada won the Zero Emissions, or electric, category of the challenge, which wrapped up competition with acceleration, load test and handling events last weekend at 's .
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看片视频, which repeated as Zero Emissions champion, was the only electric team to complete all events this year. They used new battery packs, but stuck with the same control systems and most of the other components that worked for them last聽year.
A clear understanding of safety practices gave them a leg up, according to team member .
"Most of the difference is keeping a really clear control of high voltage," Goldstein said. "There needs to be a good startup and shutoff sequence for getting the voltage out of the battery pack. A lot of it is, if something fails, does it fail聽safe?"
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