Every year, the Society of Automotive Engineers Australia (SAE) hold a competition in Melbourne, at the Winton Raceway. This competition is well known globally for young race enthusiasts who want to truly experience and express their engineering skills to build race cars.

Ever since the beginning, the University of Technology Sydney has been actively competing

every year, building newer and faster improved cars with the greatest precision

available.

(The University of Technology is Australia’s #1 ranked university always on the brink of newer and innovative ideas).

Last year, we were able to build our flagship vehicle Sally which was a technical

marvel within UTS's technological standards.

The Technicals:

Sally was composed of a honeycomb aluminium chassis and carbon fibre shell which was

tough and light only weighing 230kg allowing Sally to accelerate from 0-100kph

in 3.9 seconds.

Inside

Sally's Beating heart was the Ermax 228 MV LC motor, responsible for her 240Nm

of torque. To keep her in peak performance, Sally was also cooled with a liquid

cooled electric water pump system.

Not only was Sally relying on pure power to win, but she was also designed with the best dynamics students available who ensured that she was able to stay on track with a sturdy pushrod suspension consisted of Ohlins TTX25 dampers and with carbon fibre + fibreglass wings and aerodynamically efficient sidepods for downforce.

To keep her all alive, we were lucky enough to gain major sponsors especially from PCB Way last year, who had given us quick and reliable service for printed PCB boards connecting all our electronics together neatly and tightly.

The Build:

Extreme and under huge pressure, our team of 32 worked long and tiring hours encountering one problem after another and then engineering and redesigning newer techniques to overcome the problems such as the cooling system which blocked major fittings and misaligned body work which was to be scrapped and redesigned. (you know what they say, what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger!)

The team also developed newer techniques of manufacturing methods such as newer ways to cut and fold honeycomb aluminium and a resin infusion carbon fibre moulding method.

Another major factor in manufacturing was the electrical team’s nonstop working devotion as they had utilised newer and more slim techniques to implement circuitry for the motors, cooling system, control system and feedback systems. The electrical team utilised the swift working of PCB Way’s quick delivery and high-quality PCB printing for the main space caving circuitry to run the vehicle.

The Competition Day:

After a hard day’s work and a well refreshed crew, Sally was born into existence ready to be driven and competing against the 15 other universities on the track that day.

On a hot summer’s day Sally managed to finish 8 out of 16 participants which was a huge step up from last year. And with major success in lower cost methods and re-designed manufacturing processes, Sally had came 3^rd in Electric Vehicle cost for the Formula SAE competition.

Sally also entered the Formula Student Sydney competition, which was another major competition in Sydney, and had given the team more successful results coming 1^st place in acceleration and efficiency and 2^nd in auto cross.

The aftermath and the Future:

With the successful results and joy of the team’s major improvement for this year, its definite that the UTS team will be building a more higher performance vehicle for 2020. Its also a great pleasure to announce that with the ongoing success our sponsors have been a huge help and will continues to sponsor for us this year.

This year in 2020 we plan to create a more extreme vehicle, one that pushes boundaries and sits within the limits of the edge of technology.

Our special message to PCB Way:

We truly with our upmost respect thank you for your major help for last year, as we had been able to acknowledge PCB way as a utility rather than a sponsor. PCB way has been a utility to get us greater efficiency, a utility for being able to save storage space and a utility to being one step closer to number one.

As the tough year proceeds, and the competition still goes on, we here at the University of Technology Motorsports Electric would once again ask for your support at PCB Way to sponsor us and have PCB as our award-winning utility.