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The event itself, it's massive,
you don't really appreciate how big it is,
until when you do arrive at the venue,
the scale of the buildings and the size of the track.
It's good to have engineering students actually get out
of their office, and design, build and test something and make it run.
My name is Robert Camilleri, I'm team manager for Team EPG.
Part of my role is to try to set the agenda to see what we want to achieve
and try to push forward to get that done.
We have been described as more of a cooperative
rather than a hierarchical structure,
and as a team from a prestigious university,
we'd like to try to map out
what sort of innovations are being put into things like this,
and to see how such innovations will actually be diffused
into real vehicles in the near future.
Hi, my name's Nathan,
my position on Team Peggie is motor control and drive expert,
managing the maxon meter
and integration with all the other circuits.
We've done some back to back testing of two different types of motors
so we're trying to determine which is the most efficient,
then programming that to take signals from throttle
and control the clutch.
Hi, my name's Pete Armstrong, I'm 27 and I'm the technical manager
on EPG's Team Peggie entry for this year's Shell Eco-marathon.
We got around 360 kilometres per kilowatt hour
which is about equivalent to going from Oxford to Athens
on ten pints of petrol.
We're hoping to improve on that by around ten to twenty percent.
The technical manager is looking at the system integration issues
that arise as you're trying to load the vehicle
with all the technologies of reconfigurable PV,
phase control of the clutches and the driver application
so we're adapting all this from the inception
all the way through to manufacturing and testing.
This year PV is on board the vehicle.
The PV guys were thrilled with the energy that was harvested.
We've still got about ten percent of our propulsion coming off the PB
which is really impressive.
I'm Lucy Mahoney, I'm 29
and I'm the driver for EPG's eco-car, Peggie.
I'm looking forward to getting a valid attempt,
I need to do ten laps within forty minutes,
averaging about 25km an hour.
Some teams have incredible sponsorship
and they're able to make these incredible cars
that are just efficient in themselves
but Peggie was donated to us, so everything that we've added
is our own innovation and technology, and things like that
so the boys really need to be commended for that.
We've kind of introduced new strategies to try and improve
our efficiency on last year.
So, I'm accelerating and then when I'm approaching a corner,
I'm regenning to bring braking energy back into the motor.
On average, we need to be 25km per hour,
that means hitting 30 and then at corners, where you brake,
it reduces the average.
It's actually a very stressful experience,
it's very warm in the car, it's very claustrophobic,
you've got a very heavy safety belt which is right on your chest,
so you're sucked in and strapped into the car
which is, of course, incredible for safety,
but it's not really a very comfortable forty minutes
out on the track.