A team of University of Wisconsin mechanical engineering students received funding to develop a zero-emission electric snowmobile, the group announced Wednesday.
The snowmobile, which has been named Silent BuckEV, will be ready to compete in the Society of Automotive Engineering Zero-Emissions Electric Snowmobile event in March 2008 in Michigan. The project will be funded through donations from the snowmobile industry and Madison-based foundations, according to Department of Mechanical Engineering faculty associate Glenn Bower.
“Electric snowmobiles have been available for two years. What we saw was that the electric snowmobiles that were being developed were not high-quality,” Bower said. “We thought we could do a better job of making an electric snowmobile than what has been done so far.”
