The electrical car manufactured in Almadén competes with other 38 in Cartagena

The electrical car manufactured in the School of Mining and Industrial Engineering of Almadén participated in the ‘Solar ‘ Race' of Murcia celebrated the past 4 October beside other 38 sustainable vehicles Spaniards.

The ‘Solar ‘ Race' is a competition of efficiency and resistance in which they compete experimental vehicles designed by groups of students of educational centres: universities and institutes. It is an evento that is cream in 2009 of the hand of the Agency of Gestión of the Power of the Region of Murcia (Argem) to boost the use of the alternative energies and promote the investigation in the energetic efficiency in the driving.

The department of electricity of the School of Mining and Industrial Engineering of Almadén posed realise an unpublished model; an aerodynamic vehicle and propulsado by a battery of lithium that feed an electrical engine. During the last miscellaneous year students and professors of the department have built this totally electrical vehicle that escasamente weighs 60 kilos.

In the career wanted to show that the efficient driving is a reality and that there is alternative less contaminantes that the fuel. On 4 October the first prototype of electrical car built in Almadén showed his energetic efficiency in the first of the careers of the circuit of Cartagena confronting to 38 trucks of Italy, Belgium, Hungary, France and of diverse Spanish communities.

The car almadenense already had been tested by diverse streets of his municipality reaching a half speed of 47 kilometres by hour and being able to visit 1.000 kilometres with alone 2 litres of petrol.

This experience has to open an important labour field for the future engineers that cursan his studies in Almadén and is thus that the school will follow manufacturing vehicles for next editions. The school wants to participate in the next ‘Solar Race' to celebrate in other European countries and for this and because of the costs that this will suppose, will need the implication and the sponsorship of companies interested in the project.

In fact the work developed in the School of Mining and Industrial Engineering of Almadén has had the support of several commercial signatures. Between others, the one of the company Pferd, more known like Caballito, that has of abrasive tools to clean, mill, amolar, pulir and cut and that they can be used in the construction of the chassis and in the bodywork of east and of other vehicles in general.