Quiz Preparation

1. What is the maximum duration of the Business Plan Presentation?

2. What is the minimum allowed ground clearance, excluding driver?

3. What does the yellow and red striped flag mean during Endurance and Autocross Event?

4. Which of the following is true about presenting the vehicle for static judging?

5. Which of the following certifications for helmets is not allowed?

6. What are not the diameter of the skidpad circles? (Multiple choice)

7. Which of the following statements about the dynamic disciplines is correct?

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The following parts are part of the Shutdown Circuit (Multiple choice)

9. What is the minimum height of the characters of the car number?

10. What does the red flag mean during the driving disciplines?

1. What is the length of the acceleration track?

2. Each team must have two 0.8kg fire extinguishers.

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Assuming the skid pad event has only two participants, both EV without driverless. Team A and Team B: calculate the score rounded to two decimals for the team scoring the lower amount of points using the following data. (FS 2025 Rules)

4. What is the maximum amount of points a EV team can recieve at an event?

5. Teams who remove their vehicle from the event site after
the event has begun will be disqualified from the event.

6. The team at an event with the highest points in the Buisness Plan Presentation but not reaching the finals has 67 points. Your team received 29 points but the topic of your team’s BPP didn’t meet the requirements defined in the rules. What is your Business Plan Presentation Score? Round to one decimal place

7. Your team completes their best manual acceleration run in 3.3 secs, but at the end of the run knocks over one cone. The fastest team overall completed their run in 4.1 secs. How many points did your team recieve for acceleration? Round to one decimal place.

8. What is the minimum score for the third place in the Business Plan finals (with three finalists)?

9. What is the maximum length of time allowed for the driver change in endurance, in order to recieve no penatly?

10. What is the penatly for hitting over a cone during skidpad?

11. What does the yellow and red striped flag mean during Endurance and Autocross Event?

12. To build your race car you need a part what can be bought on the public market for 400 EUR per piece. Your plan is to sell 950 race cars the next five years. If you will manufacture the part by yourself, you need an investment of 400.000 EUR for the installation. Furthermore, you need to pay 20.000 EUR per year for the machine operator. The material costs are 70 EUR per piece. The machine cannot be sold after the usage. What is the cost of one piece of the own manufactured parts? Give answer as one whole number

13. What is the minimum number of points a team recieves for finishing an acceleration run?

14. How many points are assigned for the Overall Vehicle Concept in the Engineering Design Event? (Multiple choice)

15. To build your race car you need a part what can be bought on the public market for 450 EUR per piece. Your plan is to sell 1200 race cars the next five years. If you will manufacture the part by yourself, you need an investment of 400.000 EUR for the installation. Furthermore, you need to pay 20.000 EUR per year for the machine operator. The material costs are 50 EUR per piece. The machine cannot be sold after the usage. What is the cost of one piece of the own manufactured parts? Give answer as one whole number

16. What is the minimum allowed ground clearance, excluding driver?

17. A team missed the intial deadline for a document and submitted this 49 hours after the deadline. After that the team’s document got accepted. The team will recieve a 10 point penalty.

18. As a DV-EV Team not competing in DC, what is your maximum total score of Busniess Plan Presentation, Cost and Manufacturing, Skid Pad, Acceleration and Efficiency together?

19. To build your race car you need a part what can be bought on the public market for 250 EUR per piece. Your plan is to sell 1000 race cars the next five years. If you will manufacture the part by yourself, you need an investment of 400.000 EUR for the installation. Furthermore, you need to pay 20.000 EUR per year for the machine operator. The material costs are 50 EUR per piece. The machine cannot be sold after the usage. What is the cost of one piece of the own manufactured parts? Give answer as one whole number

20. How far is the car tipped during the tilt test?

1. Your BSPD has been triggered although the driver did not touch the driving pedal. What could have gone wrong? (multiple choice)

2. Which of the following statements about LV battery packs with lithium based chemistry other than LiFePo4 is not true?

3. Your team is considering two languages, Verilog and VHDL, for programming an FPGA. Which languages could be used?

4. The previous season you could recuperate only 27% of your initially stored energy, but this season a big improvement in your drivetrain allows you to recuperate 69% of the initially stored energy.  Knowing that you had 6.3 kWh of energy in your accumulator during the last season, how much energy must your new accumulator have, if you assume, that it’s the same length and speed? Give answer in kWh

5. You have an electric car with these specifications:

• ten 12V batteries
• constant velocity of 80 km/h
• flat road (friction 1.2kN -> aerodynamic load included)
• load for battery 160 Ah
• efficiency of 80% (Motor)

How far can you drive with one load? Give answer to nearest whol number in km.

6. Your head of powertrain has found a battery cell with excellent specifications and yet cheap. He decides upon a 142s2p accumulator configuration using the cells with a capacity of 5.8 Ah. The manufacturer specifies an internal impedance of 1.5 mOhm. However, after a while you notice the cells are of horrible quality and their real capacity varies significantly leading to an unbalanced accumulator.

He performed experiements to find an approximation of the cells SoC relation to their open-circuit voltage (EMF) as shown in the following figure:

Assume due to imbalance, exactly half of the accumulators cells are at 40% SoC and half at 80% SoC. What current will be drawn at the maximum allowed power usage? Give answer in Amps to nearest whole number

7. Which of the following requirements of the brake light assembly must be met to be rules compliant? (multiple choice)

8. Which of these HV- and LV-components have to be fire-retardant? (Multiple Choice)

9. Which of the following statements regarding the Brake System is false?

10. You want to drive with a Lithium Polymer Cell with 3.2 Ah and weighing 70 g. Which of the following configurations would be allowed by the rules? Hint: Unorm = 3.7 V, Umax = 4.2 V

1. A lorry contains an engine with a power of 2.78 J/s. The lorry drives for 36 mins. Calculate the energy transferred in kJ rounded to three decimal places.

2. A water tank under a pressure of p = 117.72 kPa has three pipes connected to it, which are sealed 5 meters below the water surface by three plates with areas A₁, A₂, and A₃.
Task:
Sort the pressures p₁, p₂, and p₃ according to their magnitude.

3. For a horizontally positioned, non-insulated steam pipe with a length of l=3 m and a diameter of d_a=0.1 the convective heat loss Q_point is to be calculated. The temperature of the surrounding air is θ_f=30∘C and that of the outer wall surface is θ_w=170∘C.

Input the result in kW and round to two decimal numbers seperated by a point without thr unit (example: 145.35)

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5. The Wet Skid Pad World Record was set at FSN2019 by TU Delft. They managed to set a time of 4.901 for the left circle and a time of 5.031 for the right circle. Assume the run was completed perfectly along the center line of the circles. What was their average speed during this record run? Give answer to two decimal places in mph.

6. The given gearbox consists of two gear sets with wheels 1, 2 and 3, 4 respectively. The wheels are fixed to their shafts. Calculate the drive speed (in rpm) of wheel 4?

Given: n1=600 rpm, z1=18, z2=90, z3=24, z4=120

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8. Your team is the first car at the design event during FSN2022 and it’s quite cold for this time of the year, 12 degrees C. To impress the judges, you decide to make some tea for them. What is the minimum required time to prepare the tea, knowing that you have to boil 4 tea cups of 370ml each and you have an electrical heater with a power of 500W. Give your answer to the nearest whole number in secs.

9. in m, to decimal numbers seperated by a point (example: 150.00), no unit requirment for the solution

10. A ball at a height of 20ft on Earth with a gravitational field strength of 9.81 N/kg, gained 284 J of gravitational potential energy. Calculate the mass of the ball. Give answer to two decimal place in kg.