BUSINESS
Sports Vehicle StudentCar SCX:
Success at the 61st Annual
International Engineering Fair in Brno
The team of StudentCar from the Faculty of Materials Science and Technology achieved huge
success, quite unique in the long history of VŠB - TU Ostrava (VSB – Technical University of Ostrava),
in winning the Gold Medal in the category of Innovation in Transport and Logistics.
The medals are awarded by a panel of experts to draw
attention to the most innovative projects. The award
ceremony is attended by the Czech Prime Minister and
the government of the Czech Republic, the Chairs of the
Parliament and Senate of the Czech Republic, leading
representation of national and foreign enterprise as
well as commercial attachés of various countries.
Team StudentCar consists of employees of the
Department of Materials and Technologies for Vehicles,
alongside undergraduate, graduate, and postgraduate
students. Vehicle development and prototype
production took place at university workshops and
studios.
The StudentCar SCX electric sports vehicle was made
in collaboration with VŠB - TU Ostrava, EVC Group
s.r.o. and TÜV SÜD Czech s.r.o. The vehicle has
attracted attention for its distinguished design and
environmentally-friendly technologies. It is equipped
with a set of four drive units without gear boxes
which makes it unique when compared to both
Czech and foreign competitors. It was the testing
platform when developing a battery pack supplying
the four synchronous electric motors. “This concept
of driving units based on torque vectoring allows our
vehicle to use an active electronic differential gear
which supports the vehicle’s brilliant performance
and running characteristics. SCX rounds the curves at
high speed without any difficulty,” says Petr Tomčík
of the Department of Materials and Technologies for
Vehicles.
Text:
doc. Petr Tomčík
Foto:
archiv VŠB-TUO,
Katedra materiálů
a technologií
pro automobily
www.vsb.cz
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