Specifications of the car

Who are we?

To stay at the top of techniques and technologies, Hughes engineering has hired three interns, coming from the most prestigious French graduate school of aeronautical engineering, the ISAE.
With three years of aeronautics studies and an internship of 11 months with Airbus France last year, the three of us are really fit for this project (more about us).
The impact our civilization has on the ecology of the earth and the effects of global warming are of an increasing concern, leading us to consider other ways we can contribute to change our society’s way of living.
Cars affect climate change in several ways, so we have decided to come to Australia to focus on contributing to finding a solution to this well-known issue.

That is why we arrived at the beginning of march and started to consider this case!

What are the roadie’s specifications?

Let us enter the thick of things and detail a little more what we are going to do with the roadie.

Here you will find the specification of our car :



With all these figures, we were able to design the first views of the car. And here it is !

A short introduction

What is Australian Lightwing?


The Australian LightWing are two and four seat Light Sport Aircraft designed and manufactured by the Hughes Group of Companies, in northern New South Wales, in Australia.
Since 1985, The Hughes Group of Companies has produced over one hundred and seventy-five two seat, high-wing, Light Sport Aircraft. They are owned by some of Australia's smartest property owners, flying schools and aviation enthusiasts.
The Hughes Group of Companies now presents their first low wing two and four place Light Sport Aircraft- The Australian LightWing SPEED (SP-2000). For more details, go to: www.lightwing.com.au



What are we doing here?

Perhaps because the car number per inhabitants in Australia is the highest in the world, The Hughes Group, recently started to feel concerned about global warming.
Everybody knows cars have a strong impact on the environment and lots of car manufacturers have worked on several new eco-concepts but there is only a few of them who have focused on electrical solutions.
Howard Hughes, Hughes Group’s boss, rightly think it is one of the best solutions!



Why an electric car?

Last improvements of new batteries’ performance and safety shows that the electrical cars will be one of the main solutions for the future in terms of climate protection. Some car manufacturers have started to convert common cars into electrical cars but here, we have another point of view. Indeed, electrical car’s constraints are different from fossil energy car’s constraints.
That is why, taking the bull by the horns, we have already started to design from nothing and keep our minds wide open to design a new kind of vehicle using electrical energy.



It is the Roadie!