Racing Green Endurance

Racing Green Endurance (RGE) was a student-led project at Imperial College London to demonstrate the potential of zero emission cars. The team drove 26,000 km down the Pan-American Highway starting from north Alaska in July 2010, this was filmed by the documentary maker Claudio Von Planta.^[1]

SRZero
Overview
Manufacturer	Racing Green Endurance
Designer	Racing Green Endurance
Body and chassis
Body style	0-door roadster
Layout	Rear mid-engine, Rear-wheel drive
Platform	Unique, developed from Radical SR8
Powertrain
Electric motor	two EVO Electric PM synchronous motors
Power output	565 brake horsepower (573 PS; 421 kW) @ 5,000 rpm 1,085 newton-metres (800 lbf⋅ft)
Battery	56 kW·h Li-ion battery
Range	400 kilometres (250 mi)
Dimensions
Curb weight	1,200 kg (2,600 lb)

Racing Green Endurance was born as a spin-off from Imperial Racing Green in late 2008. Imperial Racing Green is an undergraduate teaching project to design and build fuel cell/electric hybrid racing cars, involving around 100 students from 8 departments within the university. The students are now designing and building the third generation of fuel cell powered racers.^[2][3]

External links

• Racing Green Endurance Website Archived 28 August 2010 at the Wayback Machine
• RGE Facebook Page
• Imperial College Press Article
• Imperial Racing Green Website