Strategy

Strategy is very important for moving around efficiently. Everybody knows it’s not very efficient to leave the traffic light with your car by applying full throttle on your gas pedal. The problem is, for a fuel cell this can be very different. A fuel cell works entirely different than the engine in your car. Maybe it is more efficient to apply full power at the start. Strategy is there to find out. 

It is important to know how to use electrical motors in an efficient way, or how to use a fuel cell efficiently. Therefore, much information in the form of graphs should be used to think up a good strategy. When you know how you should work efficiently with all different parts of the vehicle, strategy will determine how they should work together. 

The new strategies have to be applied in some way. We’ve decided to do this in a special way. We won’t ask the pilot to apply so-and-so much throttle, but program a chip to do it for us. The chip will have a special program in it which will control the throttle of the Eco-Runner at all times. The pilot will just have to flip a switch, and off it goes. Different programs will be used to pass special parts of the track, like hills.