Last week, we announced that Formula Student Team Delft, a student project team under Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, created the first Formula Student electric race car that was fully built, designed and tested using our 3DEXPERIENCE platform on the cloud. The project took eight months and consisted 
of seventy-five team members. By designing the race car entirely in the cloud, the team saved time and money, ensuring a seamless collaboration and production experience that will serve as a model for other designers and manufacturers.
This isn’t the first time the 3DEXPERIENCE platform has been used to design complex machinery in the cloud. Last July, Elixir Aircraft used our platform to design an airplane entirely within the cloud, an aviation industry-first. As the press release states, the experience on the cloud lets suppliers “focus on innovation, not overhead.”
This new trend of designing things in the cloud, versus having all of the software live on individual severs within an organization, is highly efficient, both monetarily and resource-wise. It also allows for team members to better collaborate across an organization, with a central design being stored inside of the cloud rather than a multitude of versions on individual machines. Team members can access the project from anywhere in the world, a must-have capability for geographically-dispersed organizations.
Congratulations to Formula Student Team Delft, and we hope their cloud-designed car will leave their opponents eating clouds of dust.
