Each Year USEV strives to design, build, and test a new more efficient vehicle for the SEM. Take a look at our past cars from when we first entered in 2017 to our current car built in 2019! 

Clyde 1.0 (2017)

This was the first year the team entered the competition with our very first attempt at building a vehicle. Our main goal was to make it to the competition as a newly formed team despite the challenges along the way!

Clyde 2.0 (2018)

In 2018 Clyde 2.0 was a major upgrade with an improved aerodynamic shell manufactured from carbon fibre. The car was able to pass both the technical and safety inspections to make it onto the track and complete some laps!

Clyde 3.0 (2019) – Current Car

Clyde 3.0, our current car has a Carbon fibre body made with a female mould, an aluminium alloy chassis, and a battery made with lithium-ion cells similar to a Tesla. Our motor is custom made by one of our sponsors Motivity. 

At the 2019 competition Clyde 3.0 passed both the technical and safety inspections and completed all 12 laps registering a valid result. 

Our team achieved the best result for a UK team in our category, achieving a fuel efficiency of 2500 mpg equivalent (121.7km/kWh)!

Current and Future Work 

This year we are working on our new car Clyde 4.0. This is a very exciting 2-year project to build a monocoque.

A monocoque is a structure which acts as the load bearing chassis, but also works as an aerodynamic shell. It will be manufactured with multi-layered composites such as aluminium honeycomb and carbon fibre allowing the team to produce one of the best highly efficient vehicle concepts for our category in the competition.

We are also going to be moving to a brushless motor which will improve our energy efficiency and we will be remanufacturing our battery. The other aspects of the car will also be redesigned to fit within the new car.