Formula Student Electric
Design, fabricate, develop, and compete with small, formula-style vehicles.
Demonstrate and prove both your creativity and engineering skills!
Formula Student is one of the world's biggest academic competitions. Every year, more than 600 student teams from universities all over the world competing with their self-constructed race cars.
Entrants will compete to design, build and race a formula style single seater electric racing car – providing students with invaluable real-world project experience as they begin their engineering career. The winner is not necessarily the team with the fastest car, but the one with the best package regarding construction, performance, financial planning, sales arguments and sustainability.
The Road to Formula Student: EPFL Racing Team
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To allow everyone to win a prize, we are giving away best-in-class solutions, training materials and a dedicated support community to all teams and students taking part.
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How to succeed thanks to the 3DEXPERIENCE!
Use the power of the 3DEXPERIENCE to share your work, do weight tracking /budget tracking, real time co-reviews, improve the way you collaborate between each other’s, set up efficient digital marketing and find the right partners!
Collaboration
Project Management
Project Excellence
Data Management
Marketing & Promotion
Knowledge Capitalization
Design the most optimized chassis (Lightweight, Stiffness, Ergonomics, and Recyclability)
Tubular Chassis CAD
Ergonomics
Manufacturing
Tubular Chassis CAE
Impact Attenuator Crash
Monocoque Composite CAD
Develop the most aerodynamic overall design (monocoque, wings, diffusers, spoilers, etc.) to maximize car and battery performance.
Wing Shape Design
Wing Fluid Analysis
Wing Composite Design
Wing Manufacturing
Cooling Analysis
Design systems that maximize the conversion of battery power energy to drive the wheels.
Suspension Design
Suspension Kinematics
Suspension Manufacturing
Suspension Analysis
Brake System Design & Steering design
Mass Optimization
Do smart connections between all car components that require energy and/or data.
Wiring
Virtually prototype a new concept car (or reuse the existing one as a basis for optimization) in the 3DEXPERIENCE to digitally validate innovative options that will be selected for development. Invest in a 3DEXPERIENCE twin of your car to more quickly and reliably develop your perfect car. Get it right first time!
Vehicle Dynamic Control & Electronics
PCB Design
Challenge rules
Formula Student challenges are usually judged across 8 categories divided into a series of 3 static and 5 dynamic events, for a total of 1000 points. A world ranking list is available here: https://fs-world.org/E/
Static Events: Presentation, strategy, organization, methodology, innovation and research merge together for one goal: testing the teams out off the track. 3 criterias: Business Plan Presentation, Cost and Manufacturing, Engineering Design for a total of 325 points.
Dynamic Events: Accuracy, speed, driving skills, synchronization and determination join together to go beyond the limits of the team and the prototype. 5 criterias: Skid Pad, Autocross, Endurance, Efficiency and Acceleration for a total of 675 points.
Challenge locations overview
Formula SAE/Formula Student network has set different locations for student teams to compete.
All the following Formula Student competitions include Electric format, teams can compete in several events, websites are listed below:
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ASIA: Australia: Formula SAE-A | China: Formula Student China | India: Formula Bharat | Japan: Formula SAE Japan | South Korea: KSAE Formula
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EUROPE: Austria: Formula Student Austria | Czech Republic: Formula Student Czech Republic | Germany: Formula Student Germany | Hungary: Formula Student East | Italy: Formula El | Netherlands: Formula Student Netherlands | Spain: Formula Student Spain | Switzerland: Formula Student Switzerland | United Kingdom: Formula Student
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NORTH AMERICA: Canada: Formula North | USA: Formula SAE Electric
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SOUTH AMERICA: Brazil: Fórmula SAE BRASIL
Discover Formula Student through the eyes of 2 sponsored teams: Formula Student Team Delft & EPFL Racing Team
