HOUSTON, July 7, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Houston Mechatronics
Inc (HMI) and Andretti Technologies have teamed to develop an
advanced electric powertrain to propel Andretti's Formula E race
car, which will debut in Season 2 of the Formula E Championship.
The motor and supporting power and control electronics
successfully completed the initial FIA inspection at Donington
Raceway in England this week.
Formula E is the world's first fully electric racing series
and aims to represent a "vision for the future of the motor
industry", serving as a framework for R&D around the electric
vehicle, accelerating general interest in these cars, and promoting
clean energy and sustainability.
For season two, Formula E will operate as an 'open
championship', allowing teams and manufacturers the opportunity to
showcase their own electrical energy innovations, with the ultimate
aim of "filtering those improvements in powertrains and battery
technology into the everyday electric vehicle market".
Working to the technical specifications set out by the FIA,
Houston Mechatronics used an innovative evolutionary computing
design technique derived from NASA supported technology to develop
the new electric motor currently undergoing testing at Andretti
Motorsports and HMI's Texas
facility. According to Nicolaus
Radford, co-founder and CTO of HMI, "We are passionate
about bringing our expertise to bear on relevant societal
challenges. We see our partnership with Andretti Technologies
within Formula E racing as an exciting opportunity to directly
contribute to the advancement of electric vehicles for the
future."
Houston Mechatronics Inc. (HMI) is an advanced technology
company with proprietary technologies and industry leading
expertise in mechatronics, automation, and robotics. Engineers and
executives from NASA and industry with multi-disciplinary
engineering competencies and project management experience formed
HMI in 2014. HMI staff were key engineers and leaders
of some of NASA's more advanced and innovative technology programs
of the last two decades including Robonaut 2, Valkyrie, the Lunar
Electric Rover, the Modular Electric Vehicle, and the Morpheus
lunar lander prototype. HMI is leveraging our NASA heritage
to provide leading edge solutions in automation and robotics for
customers in the Oil and Gas, Electric Vehicle, and Advanced
Manufacturing sectors.
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