Clemson University's International Center for Automotive Research unveils the first concept car created by graduate students at the school Thursday.
A range-extended electric vehicle expected to achieve the equivalent of 100 miles per gallon of gas, the first Deep Orange car was unveiled at Motorsports on Main, in downtown Greenville.
According to a press release issued by Clemson University, the vehicle is powered by lithium powered batteries that can be recharged from a 110-volt wall socket or by a two-cylinder onboard gasoline engine. The press release states that the car has an all-electric range of 20 miles, overall range of 400 miles and can top speeds of 100-miles per hour can accelerate from 0 to 60 mph in 10 seconds.
"Deep Orange integrates research, education and collaboration into one whole," said Imtiaz Haque, chairman of CU ICAR's Automotive Engineering Department. "It provides industry with an innovation platform that showcases advanced technology and it provides the students with an opportunity to work directly with automotive industry partners to innovate and to develop projects. It is, we believe, how you educate the engineer of the future."
"The scope of the experience that Deep Orange provides our students will make them very attractive to the automotive industry," said Deep Orange leader Paul Venhovens, the BMW Endowed Chair in Automotive Systems Integration. "This project requires them to be directly, intimately involved in systems integration with industry partners collaborating and exposes them to the capabilities and limitations of certain technologies."
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