2024
21 may 2024
The EPFL Racing Team presents its new electric racing car project
In 2024, the aim is to optimise the previous car, named Ariane, and to have more testing time. Weighing 243 kilos, it can reach 115 km/h and accelerate to 100 km/h in 2.5 seconds. It has a full carbon monocoque, four-wheel drive and a 9.3 kWh battery.
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5 mach 2024
Ferrari and Sauber keep a close eye on the EPFL Racing Team students
Every year, over the space of nine months, a group of 80 students designs and builds from A to Z a new electric car to take part in Formula Student, an international motor racing competition.
2023
2023
interview with dassault
The Swiss EPFL Racing Team is the first Formula Student organization with its own sustainability department. The team uses the 3DEXPERIENCE platform and its Sustainable Innovation Intelligence solution to assess the environmental impact of its electric formula racing car. Through a comprehensive lifecycle assessment (LCA), they can examine which areas of the vehicle to improve, using this analysis to guide the eco-design of its next-generation racing car.
6 december2023
Garrett & EPFL Driving Forward Women’s Leadership in Racing, Engineering and Beyond
Garrett Motion’s commitment to emerging engineering talent is helping a young, diverse and female-led technology team build an electric racing car to compete in Formula Student (FS) events across Europe in 2024.
11 octobre 2023
F1-crazy students create their own racing cars
EPFL students are working on the creation and optimization of an electric racing car. Every year, they take part in Formula Student competitions to measure their machine’s performance against other university teams from all over the world.
31 may 2023
Roll out Ariane
Presentation of the car of the year 2023, Ariane.
27 april 2023
Girls’ Coding Club
A free programming club for girls aged 11 to 16.
2021
october 2021
Meet the EPFL racing team and their electric racing car
The EPFL Racing TEAM is a team of students from the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne who are building a 100% electric racing car.
The 77-strong team, which has been active since 2017, takes part in the Formula Student, a motor sport competition that brings together several European schools on some of the world’s most legendary circuits.
Designing their ‘Mercury’ car, research and development, technical constraints… the challenges are numerous in the age of the electric and autonomous car.
Discover the exciting challenges they face and enter a world where the possible takes over!
24 september 2021
“At 100 km/h, this car could roll along the ceiling of a tunnel”
EPFL students presented their innovative creation: a high-performance electric racing car called “Mercury” at the 125th anniversary of the TCS in Vevey (VD).
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In order to reach our goals, partners are needed ! The team is open to sponsorships from both companies (Partners) and individuals (Friends). If you are interested in this project and you want to help us, feel free to contact us!