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Formula Student: Drive to Recharge
17 January 2025
‘Formula Student: Drive to Recharge’ is a new initiative launched by About:Energy, a world-leading innovator in battery development software, to help address the UK's battery skills gap and support the development of 1,500 battery engineers by 2030.
About:Energy span out of the University of Birmingham and Imperial College London in 2022. The initiative, which covers five Formula Student teams in the UK, includes teams from both universities.
For Formula Student: Drive to Recharge, About:Energy provides cutting-edge simulation tools and education resources to enhance battery pack design, driving engineering innovation in battery development in motorsports and the wider industry.
Formula Student is one of Europe’s most established educational engineering competitions which uses motorsport to inspire students. Run by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (iMechE), teams worldwide design, build, test, and race small-scale formula-style racing cars, powered by petrol engines or electric motors. However, with recent EV technology advancements, many teams are now switching to fully electric.
About:Energy has a close history with Formula Student with several of its employees previously participating in the programme including Gavin White, CEO of About:Energy, who was Team Leader of Queen’s Formula Student team which placed as the fourth best UK team in 2018.
Formula-Student Teams which have gained value from the initiative already include Edinburgh, Oxford Brookes, Loughborough, Imperial, and Birmingham Universities.
Read more about the 'Drive to Recharge' project.
