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Platform: Vir'Volt
Vir'Volt is a prototype build in ESSTIN, an engineering school of Université de Lorraine, as part of a student project. The prototype enters low-consumption vehicle race, where the winner covers a given distance (depending upon the race, around 20 km) at a given average speed (around 25 km/h) with the lowest energy consumption. Thomas Chambrion has been in charge of the embedded automatic speed control of Vir'Volt for 6 years. In 2016, Vir'Volt will take part in the European Shell Eco Marathon organized in London. The sloping track (up to 5 uphill and 4 downhill) required a complete rebuild of the transmission parts. The proposed configuration has been obtained after intensive numerical simulations.