Estancia High engineering team builds a better car, wins Energy Invitational
Estancia High School seniors in Team Havoc, advised by Gerald Rizza, far right, won first place in the 2021 Vital Link Engineering Design Competition.
(Kevin Chang / Staff Photographer)
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Estancia High School engineering students were recently tasked with designing and building a vehicle large enough to accommodate a driver that would travel as fast and as far as possible on only $1 worth of energy.
In record time, 16 seniors participating in their first 2021 Vital Link Energy Invitational Engineering Design Competition working together as “Team Havoc,” had retrofitted a simple go-kart into an electric car that based on initial testing is capable of reaching speeds up to 30 mph while using only 1.0 kilowatt-hour for more than an hour of continuous driving.