LFS24
Spring Team Update
Since winter we have made significant progress on the LFS24 car, battery reconstruction has been carried out with the aim to make it as reliable and workable as possible while building in redundancies to help prevent the potential for thermistors to short. Outside of the electrical troubleshooting, we have been hard at work building up the redesigned chassis, bringing a lower nose for compliance with the new impact attenuator height rules while giving the car more aerodynamic performance, greater driver ergonomics and implementing new design improvements on the powertrain front. The big focus now is looking at bringing the whole system together, giving ourselves as much time to test the car as possible, building up confidence in the systems while running reliability testing to help mitigate any issues ready for the upcoming car launch and Silverstone in July.
A Look Towards FSUK
As we move ever-closer to the FSUK events, the work fully begins to get competition ready for both the dynamic and static events. With statics submissions looming, the team successfully submitted their Electrical Systems Form and are working towards creating our Engineering Design Report, justifying the decisions that the team have made throughout the year, considering both car performance and cost effectiveness. Alongside this, preparation is underway for the Cost and Manufacturing submissions, detailing the components of the car, their cost and relevant processes examining the mass production feasibility of the vehicle. For the final statics event, the team are preparing their business proposal, to be presented to a judging panel of pseudo- investors.
Goodbye LFS23
We bid LFS23 a fond farewell after a year of developing and learning resulting in the closest LUM has been to a running electric car. With the core powertrain and many ancillaries carrying over to LFS24, ensuring confidence in our components, the LFS23 car needed to be stripped for parts and space needed to be cleared for LFS24 construction. This represents a closing of the 2023 chapter, where we used the car to gain learning from potential shortfalls and system troubleshooting, now pushing on to a full focus into this years car. We are grateful for all the effort put in by the previous team and members this year attempting to get LFS23 into a running state to give us the potential to go track testing. Unfortunately, due to some unforeseen electrical challenges bringing significant delays, the decision to commence teardown was made to enable continual progress to the chassis and powertrain layout.
