TUCer Team

Filippos Tzortzoglou: Outstanding Student Paper Award

Mon, 12 Jan 2026 19:14:00 +0200

Filippos Tzortzoglou, an old member of TUCer team, participated at the 64^th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control and he was awarded with the Outstanding Student Paper Award in Smart Cities. Filippos is a PhD candidate in Civil & Environmental Engineering at Cornell University. He was a member of TUCer team back in 2018.

New video

Mon, 22 Dec 2025 12:48:05 +0200

A new video is available at the TUCer team's channel. The video describes the progress at the research and racing activities of the team, during the academic year 2024-2025. It was produced in collaboration with Iosif Kontaxakis and the school of Production engineering and Management, of the Technical University of Crete.

Nikolaos Sarantinoudis presented his PhD thesis

Sun, 02 Nov 2025 18:33:00 +0200

Nikolaos Sarantinoudis presented his PhD thesis, Development of an Application Framework for Digital Twin-driven Intelligent Autonomous Vehicles, on October 24, 2026. Nikolaos, as an undergraduate student of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Technical University of Crete, was a member of TUCer team during the years 2015 to 2018. Among others, his tasks included the research and development at the electronics sector of the team.

Shell Eco-marathon Europe and Africa 2025

Fri, 04 Jul 2025 12:03:46 +0300

On June 10, TUCer team participated at the Shell Eco-marathon Europe and Africa 2025, at the Silesia Ring, Poland. It was its 14th race since 2008, at the hydrogen powered urban concept category. The team successfully passed the technical inspection and raced three times. Due to technical problems the team could not improve its performance.

The 2025 racing team members are:

Michail-Angelos Gkouvelis, School of Production Engineering and Management
Ioanna Theodosiou, School of Production Engineering and Management
Georgios-Konstantinos Karalis, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Olga Koufa, School of Architecture
Evangelos Boumakis, School of Production Engineering and Management
Georgios Syntychakis, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

TUCer team wishes to thank its sponsors BETA CAE Systems, Terna Energy, Coral, Raycap, ANEK LINES, SUPERFAST FERRIES, ABB και Antonis Bikes.

Development of a prototype carbon fiber wheel

Tue, 13 May 2025 19:26:25 +0300

A year ago, an old TUCer project came back to life: design and construction of carbon fiber wheels. The wheels should be lighter and more efficient than the ones in use. After the initial CAD phase, the wheel was engineered in simulation, using the software of our sponsor BETA CAE Systems. At the next phase, the mold was constructed with the aid of a CNC milling machine. Next, the curing was completed at an oven, custom built by the team. The metal parts of the wheel are made of aluminum at the Machine Tools laboratory. All the design, construction and manufacturing procedures were completed in situ.

At first, the wheel was successfully tested by applying a pressure at least 30% higher than the rated value. Before the road, the wheel will be tested indoors, with the a prototype testing system. The system can simulate wheel loads and conditions, similar to the real road use. Furthermore it may be used to compare the efficiency of different wheel designs.

Telemetry system

Wed, 30 Apr 2025 19:21:04 +0300

On April 30, Mathjis Adinau, a Thomas More University student, presented a telemetry system tailored for the needs of TUCer team race cars. The telemetry system is based on 4G telecommunications technology. Its stand alone design uses freeware and open source software modules along with a data base. Also, Mathjis designed a user interfaces for the presentation of the telemetry, live or stored, data.

TUCer team members agreed that the proposed system is more than adequate for the live presentation and the data logging during testing and racing of the prototypes. The rest of the development and construction phases were scheduled for the immediate future. The team's intention is to use the telemetry system at Shell Eco-marathon Europe an Africa 2025 international competition.

Engineering the Future : Manufacturing Hydrogen Car Parts

Tue, 14 May 2024 10:51:43 +0300

Immerse yourself in our workshop as we build our own metal and composite components. We don't stop there, we also weld and assemble our own circuits to power our hydrogen powered car. Witness innovation in action and see how we are driving the future of sustainable transport.

New video for the Shell Eco-marathon Europe 2023 competition

Wed, 08 Nov 2023 10:47:00 +0200

The driver Michalis Gkouvelis, speaks about his race experience.

Shell Eco-marathon 2023

Tue, 27 Jun 2023 13:51:44 +0300

TUCer team participated for 13^th time at Shell Eco-marathon 2023 at Circuit Paul Armagnac, Nogaro, France, from 19/05/2023 to 26/05/2023. It was the first time in its history that the team raced at two distinct categories:

at the mileage H2 urban concept competition Shell Eco-marathon Europe and Africa and
at the Autonomous Urban Concept Competition.

For the Autonomous competition the team developed a battery race car, while the ER2023 H2 urban concept vehicle participated at the mileage competition. The team was ranked 6^th at the mileage competition. Due to technical problems the autonomous battery vehicle did not passed the technical inspection.

Shell Eco-marathon Europe 2022

Tue, 21 Jun 2022 11:25:08 +0300

TUCer team participated at the Shell Eco-marathon Europe 2022, The race took place at TT Circuit, at Assen, Netherlands, from 31/05/2022 to 03/06/2022. It was the first race of the team, after the Corona virus era. TUCer team developed and raced with the ER2022 vehicle, an innovative racing car, featuring a new hybrid carbon fiber-aluminum frame, new suspension and steering wheel system and new fuel cell stack.

ER2022 was approved during the technical inspection and raced twice. The team was ranked at the 5^th position of the Urban Concept H2 category.