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Dartmouth’s 8th annual Formula Hybrid Competition will take place April 28 to May 1 at the New Hampshire Motor Speedway in Loudon, N.H. Founded and run by Thayer School of Engineering, the competition features high-performance hybrid and electric race cars built by teams of undergraduate and graduate engineering students.
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This year, 24 teams are registered for the nation’s only Formula competition focusing on hybrid-car technology. Dartmouth based its event on the Formula SAE® competition, in which the Dartmouth Formula Racing team competed for over 10 years.
Like Formula SAE®, students compete in aspects of design, acceleration, handling, and endurance of their vehicle and abide by a long list of rules. Formula Hybrid teams, however, are faced with the additional challenge of optimizing both energy efficiency and sustainability of materials used in their cars.