Friday, May 28, 2010

Charity Head Shave

Technical team member Gary Coldwell has been busy raising money for charity.

Crazy Hats Breast Cancer Appeal is a Northamptonshire charity that supports women and men who are going through treatment for breast cancer. They raise money for work at the two major hospitals in Northampton and Kettering and they work with the Breast Reconstruction Team at Leicester Royal Infirmary.

Gary took part in a charity head (and beard) shave on May 16th 2010 at Bugbrooke Rugby Club. So far Gary has raised over £400.

Monday, May 10, 2010

Top speed of 200 km/h, with acceleration of 0 – 100 km/h in 6 seconds. Impressed?

But what if I tell you it’s a battery driven sports car?

The Electric RaceAbout (ERA) is a project by Helsinki Metropolia University of Applied Sciences, which ITW Plexus has been supporting for the past couple of years.

The challenge for the project team was to create the next generation battery driven sports car. The ERA has been designed to adopt the latest technology of electric powertrain to become a state of art battery driven electric-vehicle and manufactured using Carbon Fiber monocoque and features 4 electric drives (one motor per wheel).

A full-bloodied sports car with extremely low energy consumption and no emissions, will really open a new era for motoring enthusiasts.

The project team is now in the USA to participate in the Progressive Automotive X PRIZE, which will be awarded in October 2010. You can follow their progress via our blog.