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URE arrived at the Hockenheimring

Yesterday in the afternoon URE has arrived at the Hockenheimring for the second race of the season: Formula Student Germany. The event will really start tomorrow with the static events and on saturday all our dynamic events will be raced.
Today we have already passed electric scrutineering and are currently in the queue for the mechanical scrutineering. Stay tuned to our website, twitter and our newsletter to stay informed about our actions at Hockenheim this week and Melk next week.

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Active electronic differential tested

One of the key features of the URE05e has been produced and tested in the past period: the active electronic differential. Because the URE05e is equipped with two independent electric motors, implementation of this type of differential is possible. The active electronic differential can send a different torque to each of the rear wheels to increase cornering speed.

In the following days towards the Formula Student events this active electronic differential will be tested more intensively.

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URE05e launched!

It has been launched, the first electric formula racer of the Benelux: the URE05e. In cooperation with the Automotive Technology Centre, The High Tech Automotive Campus and the city of Helmond, URE showed its brand new car in a spectacular presentation at the 7th International Automotive Congress in Helmond. To give the audience the premiere, the all electric URE05e raced for the first time in the presence of sponsors, relatives of team members and media.

In a few weeks time the URE05e will arrive at the Silverstone circuit in the U.K. where it will race its first event.

Pictures of the URE05e can be found here.
Movies of the URE05e can be found here.

Press can find a press kit by clicking here.

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Dutch Prime Minister in URE05e

Being racing enthousiast, our Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende, couldn’t resist our full electric URE05e.

Last Wednesday we showed our brand new URE05e to the Dutch Prime Minister, who was very impressed by this achievement. He noted that he already knew our team and was very interested in the fact that we developed a full electric formula race car. “I’d like to race this car for a longer period of time” was his reaction.

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URE05e races in the dark

Like every other Formula Student team, URE is used to race during daytime. However, for the first time in history we will drive our URE05e during the night in Germany.

The German endurance race for electric cars is scheduled on Saturday night instead of Sunday during daytime. For this very special event the Formula Student Electric organization has equipped their track with bright helium balloons to illuminate the track.

With the endurance race at night, not only the competing teams will experience a premiere in Formula Student, but also Formula Student Germany will be the first organization who takes this challenge to let Formula Student cars race during the night!