Help The Accelerating Geraldine High School Electric Car Project

Have you ever travelled at 250km/h without using a drop of fuel?

Have you ever been in an race car where the torque is near double its 400 horsepower?

Have you ever been in or driven and electric car which has the potential to do 11 seconds on a quater mile? Well neither have I, but I really plan to, and with you help we here at Geraldine High School EV will do!

 

Hey there, my name is Daniel Stanton, I am a year 13 student at Geraldine High School. My Physics Teacher told me I should put our electric vehicle project on a Crowd-funding site as it will gain the interest of many of people. If you are not convinced already I have a long and informative description of the project my class-mates and I have been and will be embarking on. If you are Convinced, well go ahead and and click your mouse over on the right side of the screen there and do your magic!

 

So last year we,Geraldine High School EV, made a little electric recumbent cycle which was named the Kumho Tyres GHS EV500. This endeavour was hugely successful. At the EVolocity event at Mike Pero Motorsport Park we competed against 14 other high schools from around Christchurch and Canterbury. We won three out of five awards presented and were the overall winners senior secondary schools competition.

 

Here are some pictures of the GHS EV500.

 

 

This year we plan to make an electric vehicle like none other in New Zealand. This vehicle will be made out of the light and robust chassis of a Toyota Corolla KE70 wagon and will be competing at the 2015 EVolocity competition in the "open" category and events following. A large amount of the costs for the chassis, suspension and brakes will be coming out of my own pocket but I cannot do this on just a simple student part time wage. The team will be greatful for any pledges to help us with this.

 

 

We have sought advice from John Wayland (Plasma Boy) who owns the world's fastest street legal electric car, which he takes to compete in drag races all over America. John's build (made from a Datsun 510 chassis) largely reflects the intended design of our vehicle. We intend to have a dual motor system with direct drive to the drive-train which is more efficient than running through a transmission. John has provided all of us in the Geraldine High School Electric Vehicle Team a great deal of inspiration, both in his accomplishments with his electric vehicle and his vehicle design. After contacting him about our plans he also agreed to guide us as we develop the vehicle.

The electric parts we are going to source are top of the line and top quality products.

This gives them a hefty price of roughly $10,000 and we need your help in donations to be able to purchase them.

 

 

We plan to have a low and aggressive stance which will be both for performance and looks. This set-up is most suited to the event we would be participating in. We intend to install racing suspension as to have adjustable ride height, toe and camber on all wheels giving us the ability to use the car with a diversity of tracks, events and variations of motor racing. 

 

The vehicle below is a similar we intend to present with past sponsors reflecting the stance that we will be looking for with variation with different racing events.

 

 

 

We also would like to thank our current sponsors :

Blairs (New Zealand distributors of all Kumho and Goodride Tyres)

Geraldine Auto Restorations

Electroflash

Barkers of Geraldine

Hammer Hardware Geraldine

 

 

Although we also have support from sponsors this still only makes up less than a tenth of what the project requires, we need alot more support to make this ultimate school project happen.

Please do not hesitate to donate and help us along!

 

 **All money not used will go tocharity at the end of the year

 

Help us make this an amazing display of New Zealands 100% green image.

 

Thank you for your time,

Geraldine High School EV

Head of Sponsorship

Daniel Stanton