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It’s been a little over a month since our last post.  We’ve been really busy since then.  Check it out here.

We’ve been back at school now for a little over a month.  Check out what we’ve been up to recently!

Today is the first day of the 2013 Spring semester here at Tufts, and the entire team is excited to get back to work on our race car, the THR 13.  Check out the short promo video we made during our winter break, […]

The semester has come to a close, and the team has vacated the shop to study for final exams and complete class projects.

Check out these photos to find out what we’ve been up to this fall.

On Saturday, we took the THR 12 out for her first drive!  We were just driving on our YASA electric motor this time (with limited torque at that), but we’ll start driving with the combustion engine and then in […]

Last Friday, The Tufts Daily newspaper printed a feature about our team.  You can check out the article right here:

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It might not be the prettiest video we’ve ever shot, but seeing our motor spinning last Thursday was a welcome sight to everyone on the team.  We would like to thank Marc from Tech/Ops Sevcon for working with us […]

Want to get involved in Tufts Hybrid Racing?

This Friday (9/14) staring at 4:30pm, we’ll have our annual cookout / G.I.M.

Stop by, talk with current team members, check out our shop, and enjoy some great […]

Interested in joining the Tufts Hybrid Racing Team?
Visit us at the Club Fair this Tuesday (9/11) from 5 to 7pm on the Res. Quad, and learn more about our team and how you can get involved!

The Tufts Hybrid Racing Team would like to thank XL Hybrids for donating battery modules and electric motors to us.  We greatly look forward to prototyping and having fun coming up with new hybrid systems with […]

The Tufts Hybrid Racing Team was pleased and excited to head up to the 2012 Formula Hybrid Competition. We joined 25 teams who made it to New Hampshire, out of the 39 teams who had signed up ahead of time. […]

The Tufts Hybrid Racing Team would like to wish everyone a happy New Year!

Here are a few pictures of our work from last semester.

Though it took a little longer than we expected, we have bent our roll hoops for the chassis.  We would like to thank Ricky and everyone else at Cantibrigian Mechanics , the makers of Commonwelth Cycles, for lending us their tube bender.  Now that the roll hoops are done, we can carry on with welding the rest of the frame [...]

Do you like racing? Curious how a hybrid works?  Do you want to build and drive a racecar?
Visit the Tufts Hybrid Racing Team at the Club Fair this Tuesday (9/13) from 5 to 7pm on the Res. Quad, and learn more about our team and how you can get involved!

This week our battery management system (BMS) arrived.  This small black box and the accompanying cell boards work together to keep our lithium ion batteries working within their operating limits.  While lithium ion batteries are very light and packed with energy, they can be easily damaged if their voltage, temperature, or discharge currant is…[Read more]

After taking a few weeks off following the end of the semester, The Tufts Hybrid Racing Team is back in action, putting the finishing touches on the design of the THR 12.  Today, we also received our lithium ion batteries from Dow Kokam, our latest partner.  The THR 12 will be our first car to [...]

This past weekend the Tufts Hybrid Racing team visited the Tufts Energy Conference.  We had a great time participating in the Hot Rod Show and the Tufts Energy Challenge.  Despite the cold weather, many conference attendees ventured outside to the Hot Rod Show to learn about the intricacies of the THR 12′s parallel-hybrid powertrain.  Those who chose [...]

Come visit the Tufts Hybrid Racing team and check out our powertrain display stand.  We’re hanging out at the Tufts Energy Conference’s Hot Rod Show  between the Cabot and Olin buildings until 7:30pm.   So stop by and learn about our new parallel hybrid powertrain!  Pictures to follow.

Tufts Hybrid Racing is excited to announce that we will be attending this year’s  Tufts Energy Conference .  In lieu of racing this year, the team has decided to unveil our new power-train technology that we’ve been working on this year at the conference’s Hot Rod Show  for alternative fuel vehicles.   The Hot Rod Show will be held two weeks from…[Read more]

Our chassis team is quite an enterprising bunch.  Having finished there design over a month ahead of schedule, they chose to build a full scale model of the frame out of cardboard tubes.  As the cardboard frame came to life, the team learned quite a lot about the frame they designed, and even discovered a few areas [...]