Laboratory of High – Speed Automobiles (LSA KhADI)

This Laboratory was founded in 1953. One of the founders of this laboratory was Vladimir Nikitin, who was famous racer not only inside the Soviet Union but also around the world. The main purpose of the life of Vladimir Nikitin was to create the fasters car in the world. This idea of creating race cars became the purpose of laboratory and has been continued by students of Nikitin throughout the years.

The first car created in LSA by students was KhADI 2 in 1961. The body of the car was made of fiberglass. It was for the first time in Soviet Union when fiberglass was used as a material for car body. This technology was improved and used in majority of our cars.

We have finished making the car!

Here you can find information about our automobile
http://khadi34.blogspot.com/p/our-automobile.html

We started making the car!

In January 2009, an international publishing holding «New Frontier Media Group» which releases a magazine «Business Ukraine» provided funds necessary to build the car. Since that time, students and lyceum students of our university, engaged in the LSA, started making car for participation in «Shell Eco-marathon».
The New Frontier Media Group (NFMG) is a company based in Kiev, and engaged in media activities in developing markets. It unites investors and heads of media corporations in the U.S., UK and Eastern Europe.

Business Ukraine is the first Ukrainian weekly, published in English. The first issue appeared in March 2007. Currently, the circulation constitutes 18 thousand copies, which are distributed in prestigious entertainment and business establishments of Kiev and other Ukrainian cities as well as on boards of international flights.



Aerodinamic research of the eco-car

When your target is to create the car with minimum fuel consumption you must to minimize all running resistance force of the car.

We started from wind drag because outside appearance of the car depends on it.

The results of our researches you may see bellow:

Author - PhD candidate A. Avershin.

LSA KHADI staff presented a project of car for participation in Shell Eco-Marathon

Employers of Laboratory of Speed Automobiles presented a project of first Ukranian eco-car for participation in Shell eco-marathon.

It is a good tradition of Laboratory of Speed Automobiles (LSA) to choose the focus area of the work according to  the preferences of students who's working in it.

Ukrainian national decorations for car

The idea to create a special eco-car to participate in fuel efficiency competition is a brand new for Ukraine. Our team is the first who decided to make this in the country . we realized that it would be a big responsibility to represent not only our university but also our city - Kharkiv and our country – Ukraine at the international competition.

There was a lot of discussion how we can decorate thecar. Finally we found a perfect solution - to print a national decorative pattern 'vishivanka' on body of the car.