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The purpose of the car was to travel a distance of 2.5m only using a battery powered motor and propeller and wheels. The way the car works is that once the switch is flipped on the propeller the chemical potential energy of the battery gets converted to electrical energy and flows along the wires. As it flows the wires heat up and some of the electrical energy is converted to the thermal energy in the wires. Then the electrical energy is converted to mechanical kinetic energy of the motor as it