It's Official

Our Virginia Manufacturer’s plates have arrived at the shop. Edison2 is now officially a car manufacturer.

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[Salam Zebian]

wow this is crazy

[Jen Danzinger]

Congratulations!!!

[Tony]

My Uncle made some of those too. I heard they give you the last one as a souvenir just before your time is up.

[Simon]

This is wonderful news!!!

[Gene]

OMG how much? There IS a God. I'm saving already.

[biologist 111]

Whooohooo! The sweetness of this realization is immense. People will buy it, there is no question. There isn't one single car ever made and produced for mass production, getting near an Edison 2 VLC's performance. I just want to be somewhere on the huge order list for a VLC. Please let us know when production begins, timelines, price estimates, etc. Don't worry a whole lot about marketing, the radical design lends it's own advertisement. I read part of a book on marketing, and one of the main driving points was having an increasingly desirable product makes the amount of marketing necessary decrease. The rest of the book was about how to market something if the product wasn't as desirable or necessary, so I didn't bother reading the rest. Congratulations Edison 2, I would be very proud that this kind of car was invented, tested, and made by very dedicated, patriotic people. It would be as symbolic as the landing on the moon in that it furthers our knowledge and confirms that good men and women can change the world, giving us hope and confidence that man-kind, and even developed nations can, in fact, live harmoniously with the earth.

[Tim]

Purdue students build street-legal 2,200 mpg solar powered car
http://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/general/2011/110422M-PesynaSolar.html April 22, 2011
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Ted Pesyna, at left, president of Purdue Solar Racing, and Brian Kelley, a junior in computer engineering and member of the solar-car team, show their new vehicle, Celeritas. The car achieved the equivalent of nearly 2,200 mpg while winning the urban division of the Shell Eco-marathon Americas, an international contest for college and high school students to design and build the most fuel-efficient vehicles. (Purdue University photo/Andrew Hancock)
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WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - The Purdue Solar Racing team's solar-powered urban commuter car achieved the equivalent of almost 2,200 miles per gallon in the 2011 Shell EcoMarathoninternational competition this week in Houston.

The Celeritas prototype can handle a full-sized driver seated upright in a car equipped with headlights, taillights, a trunk, energy regenerative braking, pothole-handling suspension and rearview backup cameras. The car, equipped with five onboard computer systems, generated so much electricity it was in jeopardy of overloading its onboard batteries. Subsequent versions of the car may include an air-conditioning unit to make it even more comfortable and to consume excess electricity. The team is applying for a VIN number and license plate to make it a street-legal experimental vehicle.

Team president Ted Pesyna, a senior from Indianapolis, said the students couldn't be more pleased with their results in what was their first year competing in the urban division.

"We have clearly demonstrated the feasibility of an electric car that requires no burning of fossil fuels," Pesyna said. "Thousands of hours went into creating this machine but it is so worthwhile when the results show that we will eventually be able to move beyond oil for our transportation needs."

The team is drawn from an array of undergraduate programs including mechanical, electrical and computer engineering and aviation technology. It spent one year designing the $90,000 prototype and one year building it. The effort is funded largely through contributions from corporations and several Purdue schools and colleges.

Writer: Jim Schenke, 765-237-7296, jschenke@purdue.edu

Source: Ted Pesyna, 317-217-9172, Ted.Pesyna@purduesolar.org

Note to Journalists: Broadcast-quality video of the Purdue solar car unveiling is available for download and use at ftp://news69.uns.purdue.edu/Public/SolarCarUnveil. Video B-Roll of the car in action and soundbites from Ted Pesyna are available atftp://news69.uns.purdue.edu/Public/SolarCar2011. For more information, contact Jim Schenke at 765-237-7296, jschenke@purdue.edu

[aftermarket truck parts]

Wow! congratulations. This is something inspiring.