YELA Masdar Engineers

Our video submission to 2016 Global Hybrid Electric Challenge

Masdar Blue Spark This is Masdar Blue Spark Team video in the Hybrid Challenge 2016

Photo Credits goes to Juli Ana

So we participated in the 2016 Global Hybrid Electric Challenge in the UAE (GHEC-UAE) and received an award for Best Picture.
It was an amazing experience for the team. We pulled through with the persistence of our team members. I would like to thank our team members, and special thanks to Iván López our president for his amazing efforts.

Abu Dhabi Solar Challenge 2015, YELA! members acting as observers in the race.

Our journey, from start to finish.

Final race results:

We won the fastest qualifying lap time. And, although they did not have an award for it, we got an honorable mention for the fastest overall lap time of 83.8 seconds.

Go Masdar!

Also, the final design of our tricycle.

Final day of the endurance race is tomorrow (Friday)!

We did not end up at the top of the leaderboard today, but we still have a shot at winning this race tomorrow since many of the teams have pushed their cars so hard today that they are on the verge of experiencing significant mechanical issues.

The actual latest competition schedule, for those interested (No option for file upload in a page, so here's a MediaFire link).

https://www.mediafire.com/?e51m46vsh6ql0cf

YELA! Competition Schedule.pdf MediaFire is a simple to use free service for that lets you put all your photos, documents, music, and video in a single place so you can access them anywhere and share them everywhere.

Hey peeps, tomorrow's the first day our car will be tested on the actual competition race track at Al Forsan. Testing will commence at around 11am-12pm, so if you happen to be there, drop by and say hi to us!

EVENT SCHEDULE

The following is a tentative outline of the event schedule. Global EEE may modify this schedule prior to the event. The final schedule will be confirmed upon team registration at the event.

Date: Wednesday 29 January

All day Teams bring cars and tools/equipment to garages

6:00 – 9:00 PM Registration and welcome reception

Date: Thursday 30 January

8:00 AM All-hands team meeting

Breakout meetings Safety Specialists meeting

Drivers and Track Personnel meeting

Media/Guest Liaison meeting

8:30 AM Technical inspection and scrutineering begins

11:00 AM Track opens for qualification runs

1:00 – 2:30 PM Lunch break and Official Battery Charging Session

2:45 PM Cars report to the start line for Heat 1

3:00 – 3:30 PM First heat, with mandatory driver change at 15 minutes

3:45 PM Cars report to the start line for Heat 2

4:00 – 4:30 PM Second heat, with mandatory driver change at 15 minutes

4:30 – 6:00 PM Teams allowed to work on cars – No Battery Charging Allowed

6:00 PM Parc fermé – cars locked up for the night

6:30 – 9:30 PM Dinner and entertainment for teams and delegations

Date: Friday 31 January

9:00 AM Teams move cars out of parc fermé

9:00 – 10:00 AM Teams allowed to work on cars – No Battery Charging Allowed

10:00 AM Teams demonstrate empty tanks - Officials dispense fuel canisters and funnels

10:30 AM Official Battery Charging Session with Generators

1:00 – 2:00 PM Lunch break

2:15 PM Cars report to the start line for final race

2:30 – 5:30 PM Final hybrid race – mandatory driver change at 30 minutes

7:00 – 9:00 PM Dinner reception and awards ceremony