Formula Hybrid + Electric: Because it's crazy to try

Abstract

This column is a change of pace, a report on Formula Hybrid+Electric contest held last May at the New Hampshire Motor Speedway in Loudon, NH. Formula Hybrid was founded by the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth and is sponsored by, among others, IEEE and SAE. Formula Hybrid racers are modeled on scaled down formula race cars, and are single seat, open cockpit, and open wheel. Universities and colleges competing at the May event included Dartmouth, BU, Carnegie Mellon, Illinois Institute of Technology, Indiana and Purdue Universities, Lafayette, Lawrence Tech, MIT, Middlebury, Milwaukee School of Engineering, Princeton, RPI, Tufts, UVM, U. Victoria, U. Waterloo, U. Wyoming, WPI, and Yale.