STUDENTS CONVERT PORSCHE 914 TO ELECTRIC POWER
Posted 20th May, 2008 in Porsche | Leave a comment
Students from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have been busy converting a 1976 Porsche 914 to all-electric-power. Fitted with 18 high-tec batteries, this classic Porsche acts as a platform to monitor battery output and performance.
When the car is running, a specially-designed electronic system transmits data to an onboard laptop, which in turn measures “the conditions that batteries encounter inside an operating vehicle.”
Mechanical engineering graduate student Craig Wildman, “Now we get to take data while we’re driving. We can record everything that happens, come back and change parameters, and test drive it again.”
“In the laboratory we work on materials to make batteries safer, last longer, and have higher energy,” said Professor Yang Shao-Horn. “But we are also interested in gaining a good perspective on the system. What’s involved in building an electric vehicle, and what’s required of the batteries.”
[Source: MIT]
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