David’s Preliminary Design

David’s first design incorporated a more enclosed box AEV that had a slanted front to allow for the wind to be cut up the front of the vehicle instead of going straight through the AEV. The back of the AEV will be enclosed so that no air gets inside the inner chamber of the AEV to allow for no more resistance than there already needed to be. The pros behind this design of the AEV is that the front of it is slanted upward and the entire compartment is enclosed. The cons of this design is when the AEV has to go into reverse, the back of the AEV is a wall and not aerodynamic at all causing the amount of power the AEV has to output to be much greater than when it is traveling forward. The Arduino on the design would be placed inside of the AEV near the front slanted part of it to keep the distance between the battery and the Arduino apart at the right length. Another con is the weight of the design since it is 14 inches in length which is a lot of material that would increase the cost of the AEV significantly.