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The Electrathon Vehicle Meet in Scarborough |
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The Electrathon Meet is held semiannually. This one was held on May 13th, 2007. This time the organizers decided to spice up participation in this event by also including electric and pedal-powered vehicles of all kinds. The Electrathton is a competition of small electric cars, mostly built by high school/technical school students. The contest is to see who can build a vehicle powered by two batteries that can average the fastest speed in one hour on either a road course or a circular track. It is challenging because it is much more than just building a vehicle that goes fast. Since the vehicles have a purposely limited power source, that power must be strategically managed by the driver over the duration of the hour of running time to maximize the distance travelled. This competition was started in the UK, it later spread to Australia and then on to the US West Coast, and finally to the Eastern US over time, but it has suffered from flagging enthusiasm lately, so bringing in a variety of people-powered and electric vehices has livened up the event. The photos below show some of the vehicles that were at this event, such as neighborhood electric vehicles and pedal-electric hybrid recumbent bikes. This diversification of the Electrathon meet turns it into a more eclectic and interesting event. There were also many pedal-only vehicles present, such as recumbent bikes, but we did not photograph them for this website since our focus is on electric vehicles. We also have a new Electrathon web page with more information on this competition which is located here. Photos below may take a minute to load.
A homemade pedal/electric
An Electrathon competitor
And on the track
A commercial pedal/electric
A pedal/electric running on only electric power
Another Electrathon conpetitor. This one was the Maine State Champion in 1999.
The same vehicle as above
Here it is on the track
A pedal/electric vehicle
A commercial pedal/electric vehicle with a cage outlining a future surrounding fairing
Art Haines on the track in his Low Speed Vehicle, the Sunn Car
Here’s Art Haines showing the new differential for his electric car kits There were many other non-electric vehicles there which we did not include here.
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