Unveiling REV9

Lightest Racecar with Innovations Towards Four-Wheel-Drive

On March 29th, Penn Electric Racing unveiled REV9, the team’s first vehicle with a custom planetary gearbox, custom motor controller, and regenerative braking system. As the lightest racecar in the team’s history, REV9 doesn’t take away creation from its previous iterations, but instead features many bold and cutting-edge innovations to improve its performance. In the unveiling event, hundreds of guests gathered around College Green, including sponsor representatives, Penn Engineering professors, parents, and students. The team is now gearing up for an intensive period of testing and tuning REV9 in preparation for the upcoming FSAE EV competition in Michigan.

Read more about the unveiling event here.

Watch PER’s Journey with REV8 at FSAE EV 2023

Placing 4th in Skidpad and 6th in Autocross

At this year’s FSAE EV competition in Brooklyn, MI, PER and REV8 faced an unparalleled level of competition against 68 other teams and achieved top finishes in both Skidpad (4th) and Autocross (6th) events! The success of REV8 in these dynamic events is a manifestation of the entire team’s year-round efforts in achieving the three main goals set for REV8: Knowledge Transfer, Reliability, and Design for Validation. 

Check out this amazing video documenting two of our team’s brilliant engineers and leaders, Abi and Celine, and their journey in making REV8’s success possible. It was a pleasure working with the Ping’an Xiaocainiang team as they helped us film and create this video.

REV8 Unveiled

Honored by Attendance of  Penn President Magill, Engineering Dean Kumar, and Sponsor Representatives

On March 31st, Penn Electric Racing unveiled its newest electric vehicle, REV8. Our mechanical, electrical hardware, electrical software, and operations team leads spoke about each subteam's efforts and achievements that collectively made REV8 one of PER’s most exciting vehicles in history. The team showcased the car to hundreds of guests on campus, including dozens of sponsor representatives, Penn President Magill, and Engineering Dean Kumar. 

For the next two months, PER will focus on testing and tuning REV8 to best prepare for the upcoming FSAE EV competition in Michigan. 

Read the Daily Pennsylvanian article about the unveiling event here and watch the official unveiling video here!

REV7 Shines at FSAE EV Competition

Grabs 4th in Design, 4th in Presentation, and 9th Overall

Two months ago, our team competed in the first in-person FSAE EV competition since the pandemic. We are honored to announce that REV7 won 4th place in both Design and Presentation events, achieving an overall placement of 9th out of 58 total competitors! The team has learned from this rewarding experience, and we are excited to soon begin building our next-generation racecar, REV8.  

Read more about REV7 here.

REV7 Update

Our team has been operating virtually for the 2020-2021 season, but we have not been idle. During this time, we’ve designed REV7 to compete in either June 2021 or June 2022. REV7 features a completely redesigned 2WD powertrain, as well as a higher voltage accumulator.

In addition to working on REV7, we’ve spent the fall developing a partnership with Elefant Racing from Bayreuth, Germany to advance our autonomous systems and preparing for virtual presentation, cost, and design events this upcoming spring.

REV6 Virtual Competition

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While due to COVID we weren’t able to finish building REV6, we still competed in three events at Formula SAE Virtual in May and June. We showed off our REV6 design in the Design event, winning the 4th place Siemens Digital Twin Award for our advanced simulation work in our design. We also competed in Sales and Cost, presenting a business plan in response to a hypothetical scenario as well as discussing the cost and manufacturing of REV6.