Infinium Wins Technical Innovation Award

Posted Thu, 11/05/2009 - 3:35am by jfed
At Sunday's awards ceremony, in addition to the team's successful 3rd place finish in the 2009 World Solar Challenge, the team also received the Technical Innovation Award. The award is presented by the Australian Research Institute CSIRO, and is awarded to the team that pushes the envelope with regards to ingenuity in the development and racing strategies of a solar vehicle. We are proud of Infinium's many technological advances in our A123 Systems LiFePO4 batteries, sophisticated race strategy software suite, iPhone telemetry application, and especially lower surface concentrator system.

Comments

Awesome news, guys! You
by Chris Hammond (not verified) - 11/12/2009 - 2:37am
Awesome news, guys! You definitely deserved that award.
Well-deserved award. Would
by Anonymous (not verified) - 11/11/2009 - 1:14am
Well-deserved award. Would like to read more on how the tire pressure monitoring worked out - glad to have seen a team implement it. Also, was there a decided improvement in driver comfort/accommodation over the last car? Also significant, I thought, was a decision to go with a shorter length vehicle than most. -brian
I recently came across your
by net life science (not verified) - 11/10/2009 - 11:33pm
I recently came across your blog and have been reading along. I don't know what to say except that I have enjoyed reading. Nice blog.I will keep visiting this blog very often.
Congratulations to the whole
by Steve and Alisha Cook (not verified) - 11/08/2009 - 10:07pm
Congratulations to the whole team and a special congratulations to John Federspiel and the rest of the team from 2007 that first developed the concentrators.
It is very nice to see this
by Jocuri (not verified) - 11/07/2009 - 2:54am
It is very nice to see this institution rewarded. It deserve this award. Congratulations.
Congratulations! It's always
by Jose (not verified) - 11/05/2009 - 11:36pm
Congratulations! It's always good to see Michigan's ingenuity be rewarded! So when is the strategy program going to have it's own iPhone app? ;)
Well earned by a group of
by Brian Ignaut (not verified) - 11/05/2009 - 7:05pm
Well earned by a group of talented engineers and teammates. Great work!