Big Techday 23: How to Build the Most Efficient Concept Car in the World [EN] - TUfast Eco Team

How to Build the Most Efficient Concept Car in the World

Starting from scratch, a group of students at the TU Munich set out one goal for themselves. To build the most energy efficient car possible. With 80 team members from diverse faculties and origins, the TUfast Eco Team first developed and then manufactured a concept car designed to reach record-breaking efficiency. Two factors are especially important for this. The aerodynamics of the car and the weight. In this talk, the TUfast Eco Team will present to you how they optimized these two variables to max out the efficiency of the car and push the boundaries of what’s currently imaginable.

Expect to learn about a team of student passionate about building an innovative car of the future and a deep dive into the creation of this car and the techniques used in the process like adjoint optimization simulation and topology optimization.

About the speakers:
Gleb Lialine: Gleb grew up in Würzburg with origins in Moscow, Russia. After graduating high school, he took on the bachelor Management & Technology at the Technical University of Munich, where he is currently studying in his 4th semester. He joined the TUfast Eco team already in his first semester, where he started out as a monetary sponsoring responsible. Proving himself to be a valuable member of the team with successful sponsor acquisition and distinct leadership qualities, he became the team manager of the TUfast Eco Team in August 2022. Being the head of a student organization of 80 people he proved his analytical and organizational skills and acquired valuable competencies for his future endeavors. After this season he will hand over his job to the next team manager and continue his studies in Singapore as part of an exchange semester.

Pedro Redondo de Carvalho: Pedro was born and raised in a small town in Brazil. 2019 he came to Germany, where he started to fulfil his dream of becoming a Mechanical engineer at TU Munich - one of the best universities of the world. Pedro joined the TUfast Eco Team in the beginning of his bachelors and was given the position of Steering System Lead. Although joining mid-season, he put in a lot of hours into the workshop manufacturing of the carbon fiber parts in parallel to his part responsibility and slowly advanced in the team until being offered the position of Head of Running Gear for the new season. Being a pro at setting high standards for himself, he fully immersed himself in the role and expanded his skillset within these two years at the team. With his experience as an engineer, in and out of the classroom, Pedro learned to design and build complex parts using multiple computer simulation tools like FEM, MBS and Topology Optimization. Next to that he has an in-depth experience as a Lead, having managed a team of almost 20 people throughout a very successful season of TUfast.

Yannis Beys: Yannis is an aerodynamics enthusiast from Greece with a diploma in Mechanical Engineering. After a short break working in the research field, he decided to pursue a Masters in Automotive Engineering at the TU Munich and aim to work in the industry because this is the field that has fascinated him since childhood. His main focus is external aerodynamics, as he embraced the challenge of taming the air. He joined the team in the middle of the 2021/22 season and helped out by running CFD simulations for the last generation of the car. This season he took it to the next level by taking on the role of Aerodynamics Lead and perfecting the aerodynamic shape to reduce the drag coefficient by remarkable 11%. What makes him special is absolute persistence and eagerness to reach the final goal, no matter the difficulties.