HRVHS junior Joey Slover, top photo, attaches his team’s e-car wheels in preparation for Saturday’s race. The BMX-style rims and their 48 spokes aid in turning, he said.
Luke Serra, a junior, discusses construction with senior and classmate Charley Sutherland. Students in Jeff Blackman’s e-car class were busy Wednesday afternoon with final construction on their vehicles.
HRVHS junior Joey Slover, top photo, attaches his team’s e-car wheels in preparation for Saturday’s race. The BMX-style rims and their 48 spokes aid in turning, he said.
Trisha Walker
Luke Serra, a junior, discusses construction with senior and classmate Charley Sutherland. Students in Jeff Blackman’s e-car class were busy Wednesday afternoon with final construction on their vehicles.
Hood River Valley High School students in Jeff Blackman’s electric car (e-car) class have been preparing all year for this Saturday’s Electrathon America race, and will host eight teams from around Oregon and Washington. Between 35 and 40 cars are expected to be entered, six of which will be from HRVHS.
The “track” will be the streets around Full Sail Brewery, and the pit and staging area the Columbia Street parking lot. Practice runs will be from 9-10:30 a.m., with the race beginning at 11 a.m. sharp (“Because we’re closing the street down,” he explained) and going until noon.
Open and adult division races will be held.
Blackman thanks Rosauers School Aid, the event’s main sponsor, as well as Western Antique Aeroplane and Automobile Museum (WAAAM) for helping to weld the cars’ half-inch steel tubing frames, and Prigel Machine & Fabrication, Inc., located in Odell, for designing and building all of the wheel rims and hubs.
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