Recap

Right then, a quick recap.

Somewhere in June - it has to be June because everything only ever gets done right at the end - we got both Primus (the electric prototpye) and Kaar (the gasoline Urban Concept) running. By the way, the use of the word 'we' here is in the loosest possible sense.

Anyhow, in terms of reliablity, Kaar was working really well. Exuberant team members gave it a good amount of running all around the college. They bumped into a flower pot once too, that damaged the Ka...flower pot. In terms of efficiency, thing's weren't this flowery. The inefficient drive train - I say only on the basis of a redundant 3 stage drive reduction - and the automatic gearbox, which rendered the use of the start-stop strategy impossible, was taking its toll. Still, our hopes were high.

Primus was moving. There was no reason I shouldn't have been - I wasn't involved in it. The steering system, which we had borrowed from Zaafir, was a totally crap, so that was the only apparent downside. We had apparently had the fiberglass body made slightly smaller than what should have been too. (Notice that everything I had a hand in went wrong).

Lights on out in 10 mins, so more on more stuff, later.