The Provincial Council of Seville is committed to collaborating with Andalucía Racing TEAM ARUS

The president of the Provincial Council of Seville, Javier Fernández, visited today the Higher Technical School of Engineering of the University of Seville (ETSi)  to get to know first-hand the ARUS Andalucía Racing Team, in the week prior to the important presentation event of the new ART-24D car. 

Fernández has been received by Carmen Gallardo Cruz, vice-rector of Students at the University of Seville, as well as by Andrés Sáez Pérez, director of the Higher Technical School of Engineering (ETSi) and Pedro García Macías, team manager of ARUS, who have accompanied him to visit the spaces provided by the School in the Workshops and Laboratories building where the US team works to continue facing new challenges. 

After learning the ins and outs of the association, made up of more than 100 students from different faculties and centers of the University of Seville, Fernández has shown his commitment and that of the Institution he represents with the project to collaborate with Andalucía Racing Team ARUS. 

During the visit to the ARUS facilities, they were able to see the progress made in the prototype that the team is developing for the next European competition circuit, verifying that they follow the line of commitment of all the institutions involved for sustainable and autonomous mobility. He has also been able to see the team's last two cars. Finally, he attended a demonstration of the car that will compete this season, which will be presented on June 18 at the Cartuja Center.  

The president of the Provincial Council has expressed that 'I am delighted with this project and surprised, because it is true that to take these things into consideration you have to see them personally and the fact that they have invited me to participate in this exhibition and see everything they are doing ago Let one be proud of what our youth is doing. I meet a group of young people who are excited, happy, motivated and training and I believe they have a future that I refer to the evidence. They are preparing in such a way that I congratulate the University of Seville and the School of Engineers for this.'  

Finally, Fernández has expressed that 'I come to collaborate with them because from the Provincial Council we have to live up to any proposal of these characteristics and we are not going to disappoint them, so that they continue to have sufficient means so that they can compete, above all so that they can continue generating self-esteem.' 

The Automobile Team of the University of Seville, which competes every year in the Formula Students, was created in 2012 at the ETSi on the initiative of its students, who saw the need to integrate into their group students from other degrees who could contribute. their knowledge in other subjects outside of engineering. In this way, it grew and became what it is today, a team that designs, manufactures and seeks financing to create a competition vehicle each season, and in different categories – combustion, electric and this season autonomous.  

Last season, they abandoned the combustion car and, currently, they will focus entirely on an electric vehicle that will take them to compete in the main European Formula Students events, whose regulations also require them to introduce new features every year. on the chassis. 

Furthermore, as an immediate project, ARUS is immersed in the design and creation of a new autonomous vehicle, which they want to present in upcoming competitions. This will be the first Andalusian autonomous car to compete in any of the categories, and as a novelty it will not work by radio control, but through code sensing, algorithms that make the car capable of interpreting the circuit itself. In parallel, they are developing the car of 2025, which will be the car with the greatest technological advances including a 4 Wheel Drive transmission system (a motor integrated into each wheel), a carbon fiber monocoque chassis and topologically optimized designs in additive manufacturing among many other advances.  

With these two new prototypes, in whose development the team is currently immersed, they aim to surpass the successes of past editions - the ARUS Andalucía Racing Team electric vehicle managed to position itself in first place among the rest of the Spanish teams - debuting for the first time with the autonomous vehicle. 

During the month of January, the cuts took place that discriminate the circuits in which they will compete next summer. Around 700 teams from all over the world showed up. The teams that obtained the best results were able to choose which events they would attend, always choosing those of the highest level. This was the case of the US Automobile Team.

This year ARUS will visit Formula Student Spain, at the Circuit de Barcelona – Catalunya, Formula Student Germany, the most prestigious competition of all with an incredible second  position in the entrance exams, at Hockenheimring and Formula Student Alpe Adria at the Bugatti-Rimac test circuit, Croatia.