Early Tuesday morning (Michigan time) E-RA ran the final run in the Progressive Insurance Automotive X PRIZE competition. Only a few cars made it to the finish line and E-RA was one of them. E-RA had a real race for the victory with an other Team (Li-Ion). 

Unfortunately the final result is still unknown, but we will release it as soon as we get it.

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ERA has easily passed all the dynamic safety tests at the final stage of the Progressive Insurance Automotive X PRIZE.
The dynamic safety tests included: Double lane change, acceleration and braking tests.

Combined performance/efficiency tests will be driven tomorrow. Total time elapsed in this stage will be used to
determine the winner of the Progressive Insurance Automotive X PRIZE competition.

Event details can be found here http://www.progressiveautoxprize.org/prize-details/competition-event-det...

E-RA ran the highway efficiency run on Thursday without any problems.  Friday morning included optional 2 hours of maintenance. The team checked the vehicle and everything is now set for the Fridays range event, starting at 11AM (Michigan time). 

For further information: http://www.progressiveautoxprize.org/prize-details/competition-schedule

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Wednesday 21th included city- and urbancycle runs. One of the hardest mission was to keep the cabin temperature below 35 degrees Celcius (95 Fahrenheits) during the runs. The sunshine at the Michigan International Speedway has been extremily hot! E-RA didn`t get any penalties of the cabin temperature and overall the runs went very well.

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The final stage of the Progressive Insurance Automotive XPRIZE has started. E-RA passed the technical inspection early on Monday morning as the first team and we are now getting ready for the tests starting on Wednesday. Wednesday tests includes efficiency runs such as urban and citycycle.

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Electric RaceAbout just passed the avoidance test and secured a place for the final stage of the Progressive Automotive X PRIZE.

See you at the Michigan International Speedway on 19th of July.

cheers,
Team Electric RaceAbout

Progressive Insurance Automotive X PRIZE knockout efficiency results released

http://www.progressiveautoxprize.org/files/downloads/auto/Knockout_Week_1_Results_final.pdf

Today included lateral acceleration test, where vehicles had to achieve at least 0.7g while driving 300 foot (91.44m) circle  and acceleration/braking test, where vehicles had to accelerate from 0 to 60MPH and then stop within 52m braking distance.

ERA didn't have any problems passing both tests.

After the first week of knockout event, only 14 teams are still competing for the grand prize. Many teams didn't pass
the 67MPGe limit needed to continue the competition and at the finals, there will be 100MPGe and 100mile range limit.

ERA didn't have any problems meeting the requirements, as we calculated 129MPGe and easily passed the 68mile knockout range requirement.

Acceleration/braking and avoidance tests are still needed in order to continue to finals.

Wednesday and Thursday included efficiency runs, which included city, urban and highway cycles. Vehicles must achieve at least 67 MPGe and
less than or equal to 300g/mile CO2 emissions to pass the knockout stage. At the finals, vehicles must pass 100 MPGe and 200g/mile
energy efficiency and emissions

-The city portion of the test is 16 miles (25.75km) at an average speed of 22 MPH (35.4KPH) with three stops per mile.
-The urban drive cycle included driving 30 miles (48.28km) at an average speed of 29MPH (46.67KPH) with two stops per mile.
-After the urban cycle, the 90 mile (144.84km) highway cycle is driven at an average speed of 45MPH (72.42KPH)

Recharging was done after completion of driving. MPGe and emissions will be determined directly from the total energy
used over the total distance.

ERA succesfully passed all the efficiency tests and the official energy consumption figures will be released later.

Lots of work was done between the competition stages to improve aerodynamics and suspension adjustments,
which has really paid off with better energy efficiency and handling