…Sponsors Formula Student Team wob-racing for 2023 Season

Analog Devices is supporting the first roll-out of Team wob-racing’s latest Formula Student racecar, the WR17.

As a platinum sponsor of the student team, ADI continues to support the future of engineering talent in the automotive industry. The racecar utilizes a wide range of ADI’s technology within the electric vehicle powertrain, including within the inverter assembly and battery management system. With ADI’s broad portfolio of cutting-edge technology, it was a natural progression for Team wob-racing to approach ADI for sponsorship of the team for their 2023 season, alongside other automotive ecosystem players such as Vector and Bertrandt.

Founded 20 years ago by students of the Faculty of Automotive Engineering at the Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences, Team wob-racing is one of the oldest Formula Student racing teams in Germany. In 2011, the project pivoted to designing electric vehicles. The latest concept, the WR17, is the team’s most optimized design thus far. It is capable of accelerating to 100km/h within 2.2 seconds. Effective energy management is a critical capability for electric vehicles to achieve better performance and longer range, and ADI continues to lead that charge through its innovations in automotive electrification technology.

The future engineers made one of the biggest innovations in the team's history with their new in-house developed inverters. Alongside the battery management system, the inverters are another important component of the racecar, which uses many ADI parts. To complete the development, the team was able to use an axle test rig from their sponsor Bertrandt to evaluate the best possible electronic control of the system.