Quiz Preparation

How many points are assigned for the BOM discussion in the Cost and Manufacturing Event?

How many different tyre sizes can be used on a car during an Autocross run?

What is the minimum allowed static ground clearance, including driver?

How many percentage of points are the Finances in the Business Plan Presentation Event?

What is the minimum tread depth of the rain tires?

Which of the following must be included in the Bill of Material (BOM)?

How long is water sprayed on the car during the rain test?

What is the length of the acceleration track?

What is the diameter of the outside skidpad circle?

What is BSPD short for?

How many manual dynamic events can one team compete in during a competition?

Which of the following requirements is a must for all types of vehicles, when moving the vehicle on the competition site?

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

How many percentage of points are the Finances in the Business Plan Presentation Event?

Which statement about the Ready-To-Drive sound is correct?

What is the maximum duration of the Business Plan Presentation?

How many events may a driver drive during a competition?

What is the maximum hight for aerodynamic devices rearward of a vertical plane through the rearmost portion of
the front face of the driver head restraint support ?

What is the diameter of the inside skidpad circle?

A team can register up to how many Electrical System Officers?

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

Your team completes their best autocross run in 71.2 secs. The fastest team overall completed their run in 71 secs. How many points did your team recieve for autocross? Round to one decimal place.

Your team completes their best manual acceleration run in 4.2 secs. 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.

You want to use this shutdown button left and right between the main hoop and the main hoop bracings. Is this application rules compliant?

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?

The Electrical System Officer must: (Multiple Choice)

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.

Your team completes their best autocross run in 84.0 secs but knocks down five cones. The fastest team overall completed their run in 1 min 13 secs. How many points did your team recieve for autocross? Round to one decimal place.

Your team completes their best autocross run in 84.0 secs but knocks down one cone. The fastest team overall completed their run in 75.7 secs but knocked down three cones. How many points did your team recieve for autocross? Round to one decimal place.

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

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

A capacitor with a capacitance of 100 μF is currently charged to a voltage of 199.8V. How much additional energy is needed to charge it to a voltage of 301.4V. Give answer to 4 significant figures in Joules

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

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

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

For this Wheatstone Bridge based NTC temperature measurement circuit, which is the lowest voltage measurement (VAB) that is possible to obtain at 60ºC? (NTC B: 3435 +/-1%) Give answer in Volts rounded to two decimal points.

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

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

How long will it take to discharge C1 below 60V using the following constant current sink if it is initially charged at 565V? (MOSFET’s VGSth: 4V) Give answer to two decimal places in secs.

The following processes have to be measured by the AMS. (Multiple choice)

A racing car rolls to a stop on a horizontal course with an initial speed of v. It decelerates
only by friction with a rolling resistance of μF, which is supposed to be independent of
the current velocity.
What is the distance s the car needs to stop?
v = 300 km/h, μF = 0.15, g = 9.81 m/s2.
Give your answer in meters, rounded to four significant places.

A cat of mass 12 kgs ran at 65mph. What is its kinetic energy? Answer in J to the nearest whole number

Before the endurance you pump nitorgen in your tires at a temperature of 20°C and 0.7 bar relative pressure. Knowing, that during the endurance the maximal tyre temperature will be around 60°C, what will be the maximal relative pressure of the tyre? Give answer in bar to two decimal places.

Three inductors are connected as shown in the following figure:

Given that L1 = 2L2, find L1 and L2 such that the equivalence inductance is L = 0.7 H.
Give your answers in Henry, rounded to three decimal places separated by a comma (L1, L2)

The magnitude of the manifold reaction force FK is to be determined. In Newton, integer, no unit in the answer

A team is in the process of validating the compliance of the shoulder harness bar used in their car. Choose the part in which their configuration is incompliant:

The previous season you could recuperate only 25% of your initially stored energy, but this season a big improvement in your drivetrain allows you to recuperate 63% of the initially stored energy.  Knowing that you had 9.6 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 to one decimal place.

Calculate the force Fc working at point C.

Rax = 4kN, Ray = 10 kN

Rbx =5 kN, Rby = 8 kN

A vehicle with the mass 190kg, wheelbase 1,56m and tyre static radius 222mm is weighed. Scales measure 83kg (front) and 107kg (rear) when the car measured on the perfectly flat ground and the same values when the front axle is elevated by 0,85m. What is the car’s COG height? Give answer to the nearest whole number in mm