{"648981":{"#nid":"648981","#data":{"type":"news","title":"HyTech Racing Earns Second Against Intense Competition and Heat","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EHyTech Racing, Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s student-led electric racing team, recently won the second-place trophy at the annual Formula SAE Nevada Competition. Formula SAE Electric challenges students from around the world to engineer the best performing electric formula-style racecar. HyTech\u0026rsquo;s 380-pound vehicle bested 18 cars presented by other world-renowned engineering universities including MIT, Carnegie Mellon University, and Cornell University. The team persevered through a tough week under a 117\u0026deg;F Nevada heat wave and impressed the competition with a 73-second \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/youtu.be\/abjAkRb79hw\u0022\u003Eaverage endurance lap-time pace\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EStudents on the team major in all disciplines, from mechanical engineering to business, and work together year-round to design, build, and race their fully electric racecars. During this COVID season, designing and building the car with members contributing both virtually and in-person posed a new challenge the team had never encountered. In order to make the best car possible, they developed novel in-house solutions for project management and sub- system integration. This resulted in a significantly improved battery cooling system to tackle the Nevada heat, a lighter powertrain system, and HyTech\u0026rsquo;s first ever aerodynamics package.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETesting component failure was an integral part of HyTech\u0026rsquo;s success, and they did so right in the Georgia Tech student center parking lot. By rigorously testing this year\u0026rsquo;s prized car, HT05, the team was able to collect data that helped them identify faulty components, fully optimize the vehicle\u0026rsquo;s subsystems, and eliminate performance bottlenecks.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ENext year, with vehicle performance targets set based on this year\u0026rsquo;s data, the team \u0026ldquo;will focus on completely redesigning the battery pack, further reducing composite part weight, and inventing an optimized steering geometry,\u0026rdquo; said Anson Tsang, the incoming president for the 2021-2022 school year. By carefully setting realistic goals and achieving them, he believes, \u0026ldquo;we will always make sure we are one step ahead of the competition.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EHyTech Racing, Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s student-led electric racing team, recently won the second-place trophy at the annual Formula SAE Nevada Competition.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"HyTech Racing, Georgia Tech\u2019s student-led electric racing team, recently won the second-place trophy at the annual Formula SAE Nevada Competition."}],"uid":"27842","created_gmt":"2021-07-22 02:32:14","changed_gmt":"2021-09-14 19:46:14","author":"Ashlee Gardner","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2021-07-21T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2021-07-21T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"648979":{"id":"648979","type":"image","title":"The HyTech Competition Team","body":null,"created":"1626920510","gmt_created":"2021-07-22 02:21:50","changed":"1626920605","gmt_changed":"2021-07-22 02:23:25","alt":"The HyTech Competition Team","file":{"fid":"246391","name":"DSC00777.jpeg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/DSC00777.jpeg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/DSC00777.jpeg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":826003,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/DSC00777.jpeg?itok=JFYKIsz8"}},"648980":{"id":"648980","type":"image","title":"HT05 at the Nevada Motor Speedway","body":null,"created":"1626920741","gmt_created":"2021-07-22 02:25:41","changed":"1626920741","gmt_changed":"2021-07-22 02:25:41","alt":"HT05 under high speed cornering at the endurance event.","file":{"fid":"246392","name":"DSC00665.jpeg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/DSC00665.jpeg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/DSC00665.jpeg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":426238,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/DSC00665.jpeg?itok=XNHKErWx"}}},"media_ids":["648979","648980"],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=R_CiNBg1vzs","title":"HyTech Racing Hype Video 2021"}],"groups":[{"id":"1255","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAnson Tsang\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:Ytsang3@gatech.edu\u0022\u003EYtsang3@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n(508)-615-4978\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["Ytsang3@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}