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Next year's event is scheduled for Saturday, June 1, 2002, at Capital City Speedway, Stittsville, Ontario.

What is Electrathon:

The objective of the Electrathon contest is to travel as far as possible in one-hour in a single-seater vehicle using only the energy available from approximately 30 kilograms of lead-acid batteries. The vehicles must comply with a set of rules (e.g. 3 or more wheels, safety devices). Creativity in the design and construction of the vehicles is encouraged. The Electrathon cars are much like the solar cars that take part of international competitions, except that they do not have the (expensive) solar panels, allowing them to be constructed on limited budgets. Like larger on-road electric cars, the Electrathon cars produce no air pollution in operation, and can be virtually silent.

The 2001 EVCO Electrathon was organized and partially sponsored by EVCO (the Electric Vehicle Council of Ottawa).

EVCO Demo vehicle

Photograph of the EVCO Electrathon demonstration vehicle

http://www.econogics.com/ev/electhon.htm">Information about other Electrathon and similar events

Announcement (2001.08.05)

EXIDE offers special deal on batteries for Registered Teams

Check out EXIDE on our sponsors page for details

Announcement (2001.04.05)

Team Web-Site Contest

In conjunction with Electrathon 2001 ErgoComp is sponsoring a Team Web-Site Contest.

Registered Teams are encouraged to submit their web-site address to be entered in this contest

Please Click Here to View the team web-sites and vote on-line


Announcement (2001.03.25)

Please Register Now

Early registration fee (before January 31, 2001) was $30. Regular registration fee (until April 30, 2001) is $40. Registrations will still be cut off at 40 entries. Registered teams are shown below on this page.

Event officials have decided to permit late registrations (afterApril30), but at a higher registration fee of CDN$60.00

To register contact >Richard Querel

Announcement (2001.03.25)

There will be a number of displays at the Speedway on June 2nd, other than the Electrathon vehicles. These may include:

2000 Mazda Miata - electric conversion
1997 Chevrolet Cavalier - electric conversion
1996 Ford Ranger - electric
1988 Honda CRX - electric conversion
1986 Fiero - electric conversion
VW Jetta - electric conversion
Several other on-road electric cars
Electric bicycles and motorcycles
Electric boats
Electric tractor
and other items of interest

Announcement (updated 2001.04.18)

The Mitel Corporation awards its Excellence in Planning Awards

Mitel has announced that the following five schools qualified for an award of $500 (Canadian) towards the cost of their project after the review of the project plans submitted to Mitel.

Here is an update on the status of this year's 'Excellence in Planning' award.
Seven schools applied for the five $500 awards, and the results were as follows:

  • Courtice Secondary School Winner
  • Albert Campbell Collegiate Institute Winner
  • Earl of March Secondary School Winner
  • Arnprior District High School Winner
  • Woodroffe High School #2 (SMO II) Winner

  • Woodroffe High School #1 (Carbonita) Honourable Mention
  • Seaway District High school Honourable Mention
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    Teams Registered to Date for the 2001 EVCO Electrathon

    # 01 Arnprior District High School (Rolling Thunder) , Arnprior, ON
    # 2 Earl of March High School, Kanata, ON
    # 3 Earl of March High School, Kanata, ON
    # 4 Woodroffe High School Carbonita, Ottawa, ON
    # 8     Woodroffe High School Smo, Ottawa, ON
    # 9 Brookfield High School, Ottawa, ON
    # 12 East Northumberland Secondary School, (Blue Tech Dragons) Brighon, ON
    # 22 Perth and District Collegiate Institute (The Blue Devils and the Blue Flame) Perth, ON
    # 31 Almonte and District High School. Almonte ON.
    # 33 Frontenac High School. Kingston, ON
    # 46 l'équipe PROPULTRON Repentigny, PQ
    # 57 Vincent Black Shadow Racing, Ottawa, ON
    # 72 Équipe court-circuit, Wakefield, PQ
    # 73 Courtice Secondary School. Courtice, ON
    # 99 Albert Campbell Collegiate Institute. Scarborough, ON
    #667 Osgoode Township High School, Osgoode, ON
    #747 Arnprior District High School (Red Lightning) . Arnprior, ON

    Not eligible for prizes, and not expected to run in the event, is the EVCO demonstration vehicle [98].

    You can [dead link: http://web.archive.org/web/20011214171009/http://www.cyberus.ca/%7Eweavers/ethon01/contest.htm] vote for the best team web-site
    [dead link: http://web.archive.org/web/20011214171009/http://www.cyberus.ca/%7Eweavers/ethon01/otthon01.htm#register] Registration information

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