Boiler Bytes: Purdue students convert Porsche to electric power

Jim Danielson and Sean Kleinschmidt spent the summer before their freshman year at Purdue University turning a Porsche with a blown engine into an electric-powered vehicle.
Danielson of Arlington Heights, Ill., and Kleinschmidt of Prospect Heights, Ill., are high school friends who are now first-year engineering students. They started work on the car in late May and finished in early August.
http://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/students/2009/RidgwayVehicles.html

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Science & Technology

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• electric
• vehicle
• car
• Purdue
• battery
• student-life

[edwinacorrao]

this is sooo COOL!!!

[sinodirac]

Fasten your seat belt, lady. Show the PORSCHE some respect, plz.

[TommyboyGTP]

PORSCHE is a two syllable word... And that's a 924S. Do you know how rare these are? They were only made for 3 years. Thanks for ruining an iconic sports car. 

[gypsy101gypsy]

May you have the GREATEST SUCCESS

[kracka117]

@tnmtemerity I would like to see you try to do what these guys did on the budget they had.

[kracka117]

Awesome work guys!

[tnmtemerity]

It is pronounced Porch-a (it is a family name after all - and awesome - it doesn't seem like it can do much...

[calebojo]

i hav a business plan.culkd you contact me.

[1888junkteam]

excellent work!

[probuild521]

its actually a 924s, very similar car though.