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Mahurangi College students have surged ahead in the race to develop great electric vehicles, after dominating at the EVolocity Auckland Regional Finals last month.
The school had four teams compete at Mount Wellington Kartsport Track on September 30, with two in the 350 Watt division and two in the one kilowatt division.
The students will now travel to Christchurch on November 24 to compete at the EVolocity National
Finals, where the top schools will race their electric vehicles and be judged on criteria such as stopping distance, speed and economy.
Teacher Paul Lenihan, who has been working with the students on their projects, says Team Horsepower had an outstanding entry.
“They competed with an excellent one kilowatt bike that was well tuned and raced superbly,” Paul says.
The bike, developed by Callum Harnish, Jerome Cunningham and Laurens Bubbert, won all four racing events, which were open drag, open street, open gymkhana and open economy run.
Also in the one kilowatt class was team Passing Gas made up of Jordan Heron, Jackson Crawford, Daniel Foote and Scott Monteith.
“They were the overall show winner and won the innovation prize. Their design raised the benchmark in this competition.
“The vehicle was not running at full throttle for the regionals, which is an extremely exciting prospect for the nationals.”
Team Rewop had a strong showing in the 350 Watt division, winning the carts gymkhana and coming second in the carts drag race and carts street circuit.
The team of Theo Neumann, Marty Johnston and Matthew Georgetti based their bike on a trike design and constructed it out of carbon fibre.
Red Team, made up of Solomon Waterhouse and Jack Marshall-Young, finished a close second in the bike drag race, just 2km/h shy of the speed of the first place-getter.
Students began designing their vehicles in February and found sponsorship from more than 25 local businesses. Vehicles were constructed from May to September.
