Creative Engineering
For our creative engineering project we where told to think of a problem whether it only effects ourselves or if its a world issue. My group consisted of me, Angus Broduer, and Simon Shetland and we decided to face the issue of gas efficiency. We looked at all the things we could do to improve the gas efficiency of a car. We came to the conclusion that the easiest and most helpful thing to improve aerodynamics and that's when we thought of the mango cover.
The mango cover is a wheel cover made to improve the aerodynamics of the average car. It was designed to be able to fit any car in production by simple attaching it in with neodymium magnets.
The wheel on the normal car creates a drag on the car and lowers aerodymics. The wheel cover should a low the wind to flow over the wheel nicely reducing drag. With the wheel cover on can make your mpg increase by 1. This can save you upwards of $1600 a year. With gas becoming more and more scarce the mango cover will help with conserving the gas that we have today |
Neodymium magnets- A strong magnet with the ability to hold 100 times its own weight.
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