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The Florida Electric Auto Association (FLEAA) hosted the 4th Annual “Battery Beach Burnout”, an alternative fuel / electric vehicle competition, in Jupiter, FL at Florida Atlantic University February 21st and 22nd, 2008. The free event consisted of multiple competitions involving electric vehicles (EV), hybrid electric vehicles (HEV) and plug-in hybrids (PHEV), including an auto-cross, scooter-cross, vehicle performance tests, Electrathon and a Show & Shine event.
As the premier annual electric vehicle event in the Southeast, the purpose of Battery Beach Burnout was to raise public and media awareness of the current state of electric and hybrid vehicles and to educate people about ‘green’ alternative fuel vehicles. The event showcased and promoted alternative energy technologies to power vehicles of the future to solve our transportation, energy and air quality problems.
The FLEAA had approximately 80 vehicles participating and on display throughout the weekend. Vehicles ranged from a beautiful 1920 Milburn Electric to the stylish new Tesla Roadster, from modern show-room hybrids to A123/Hymotion converted Prius’ to FPL’s Plug-in Hybrid Aerial Bucket trucks, and electric scooters to Electrathons.
This year's BBB logo and T-Shirt layout was designed by Chip Gribben.
Here are the results for BBB 2009:
(Full Results can be downloaded here 
)
The first event was the acceleration event, which had 2 classes: Electric and High School
Acceleration Electric/Open:
1) Steven Ganeles – Tesla – 2.20* secs
2) Bob Salem – VW Truck – 2.20*
3) Dave Delman – Electric Delorean - 2.49
1) Miramar High School – Porsche 944 – 2.17 secs
2) Shenandoah Valley Governor’s School – Datsun – 2.24
*Note: There was a tie for first place in the Electric Class between the Tesla and the VW Truck; we averaged the runs for the overall quickest time to determine first.
Scootercross:
1) Steven Smith – 20.19 secs
2) Andrew Stanley – 20.46 secs
3) Scott Kuzma – 20.58 secs
Electrathon:
1) Team Rolling Thunder – 126 laps
2) Team Rodney – 124 laps
3) USF ASME – 100 laps
1) Miami EV Project – VW Golf
2) Dave Delman – Electric Delorean
3) Joseph DiPietro – Pontiac Sunfire
Show and Shine Hybrid Class:
1) Blake Fuller/Braille Batteries – Hybrid Altima
2) Florida Institute of Technology (FIT)
3) Fran Sullivan-Fahs/EVI – Hymotion Prius
Show and Shine Best Design:
Miami EV Project with the VW Golf
Matt Graham/Shawn Waggoner/Lowell Simmons – AC Propulsion Porsche 911
1) Dave Erb – VW Truck – 30.39 secs
2) Matt Graham – Porsche 911 – 30.57
3) Lowell Simmons – Porsche 944 – 31.01
Autocross Hybrid:
1) Blake Fuller/Braille Battery – Hybrid Altima – 28.98 secs
2) Cliff Rassweiler/Palm Beach Toyota – Hybrid Camry – 31.41
3) Shawn Waggoner/Palm Beach Toyota – Prius – 32.64
1) Shenandoah Valley Governor’s School – Datsun – 34.53 secs
2) Shenandoah Valley Governor’s School – Datsun – 35.92
Every year we give out an award called the “Burned Out” award. It goes to person who had the hardest luck at the event. This year we didn’t have anyone break their car or have any major failures! So, we had to give it to Shenandoah Valley for taking out the most cones on the Autocross!
This year’s ‘Best of Battery Beach’ award goes to:
Matt Graham/Shawn Waggoner/Lowell Simmons for the AC Propulsion powered Porsche 911
The Florida Electric Auto Association would like to thank our 2009 Sponsors:
Sincerely,
FLEAA and the Battery Beach Burnout Planning Committee
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