Cal Poly Wins First Shell Eco-marathon Americas with 1,902.7 MPG
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04-15-2007, 01:33 AM
Cal Poly Wins First Shell Eco-marathon Americas with 1,902.7 MPG
14 April 2007
The team from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo today won the first Shell Eco-marathon Americas with a gasoline-fueled combustion engine vehicle that delivered 1,902.7 mpg.
The Eco-marathon challenges student teams to design and build the most fuel-efficient vehicles, which are tested in a mileage challenge. The Eco-marathon concept started as the Shell Mileage Marathon in 1939 after a friendly wager between employees of Shell Oil’s research laboratory in Wood River, Illinois, as to whose car could get the better fuel mileage. Shell has been running the current Eco-marathon for more than 20 years in the Europe and the UK, and brought a version of the event to the US for the first time this year.
The Eco-marathon Americas ran April 13 -14, 2007, at the California Speedway in Fontana, California. Shell challenged the engineering students to drive their vehicles the farthest distance using the least amount of fuel, either conventional or alternative.
Twenty-three teams competed in the combustion engine category. Second-place went Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology (Terre Haute, IN) at 1,637.2 mpg, with third-place going to Mater Dei High School (Evansville, IN) at 1,596 miles per gallon.
The Los Altos Academy of Engineering (Hacienda Heights, CA), the sole hydrogen engine entrant, came it with 1,038 mpg.
http://www.greencarcongress.com/2007...ns_f.html#more
World Record Holder http://www.paccar.ethz.ch/news/index
The Pac-Car II achieved the equivalent of 12,665 mpg.
http://www.eere.energy.gov/news/arch...6'%7D#9166
Hydrogen-Fueled Vehicle Achieves 12,665 MPG on Test Track
Students from the Federal Polytechnical School of Zurich set a new world record for fuel efficiency in late June: 12,665 mpg (5,385 kilometers per liter). The team set the new world record in a hydrogen fuel cell vehicle on a track in France as part of the Shell Eco-marathon. Called the PAC-Car II, the diminutive vehicle weighs only 66 pounds and carries one driver in a prone position. To qualify for the record, the car had to travel just under 13 miles on a test track while maintaining an average speed of at least 18.6 miles per hour (30 kilometers per hour), a feat that the Swiss team achieved while using only 1.02 grams of hydrogen. The record 12,665 mpg is based on converting that hydrogen to its equivalent in 95-octane gasoline. As pointed out by the Swiss team, with that fuel efficiency a car would need only 2 gallons of gasoline to travel around the globe. See the press release from the Federal Polytechnical School of Zurich, as well as the school's PAC-Car II Web site.
The team from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo today won the first Shell Eco-marathon Americas with a gasoline-fueled combustion engine vehicle that delivered 1,902.7 mpg.
The Eco-marathon challenges student teams to design and build the most fuel-efficient vehicles, which are tested in a mileage challenge. The Eco-marathon concept started as the Shell Mileage Marathon in 1939 after a friendly wager between employees of Shell Oil’s research laboratory in Wood River, Illinois, as to whose car could get the better fuel mileage. Shell has been running the current Eco-marathon for more than 20 years in the Europe and the UK, and brought a version of the event to the US for the first time this year.
The Eco-marathon Americas ran April 13 -14, 2007, at the California Speedway in Fontana, California. Shell challenged the engineering students to drive their vehicles the farthest distance using the least amount of fuel, either conventional or alternative.
Twenty-three teams competed in the combustion engine category. Second-place went Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology (Terre Haute, IN) at 1,637.2 mpg, with third-place going to Mater Dei High School (Evansville, IN) at 1,596 miles per gallon.
The Los Altos Academy of Engineering (Hacienda Heights, CA), the sole hydrogen engine entrant, came it with 1,038 mpg.
http://www.greencarcongress.com/2007...ns_f.html#more
World Record Holder http://www.paccar.ethz.ch/news/index
The Pac-Car II achieved the equivalent of 12,665 mpg.
http://www.eere.energy.gov/news/arch...6'%7D#9166
Hydrogen-Fueled Vehicle Achieves 12,665 MPG on Test Track
Students from the Federal Polytechnical School of Zurich set a new world record for fuel efficiency in late June: 12,665 mpg (5,385 kilometers per liter). The team set the new world record in a hydrogen fuel cell vehicle on a track in France as part of the Shell Eco-marathon. Called the PAC-Car II, the diminutive vehicle weighs only 66 pounds and carries one driver in a prone position. To qualify for the record, the car had to travel just under 13 miles on a test track while maintaining an average speed of at least 18.6 miles per hour (30 kilometers per hour), a feat that the Swiss team achieved while using only 1.02 grams of hydrogen. The record 12,665 mpg is based on converting that hydrogen to its equivalent in 95-octane gasoline. As pointed out by the Swiss team, with that fuel efficiency a car would need only 2 gallons of gasoline to travel around the globe. See the press release from the Federal Polytechnical School of Zurich, as well as the school's PAC-Car II Web site.
Last edited by Maj Easy; 04-15-2007 at 01:39 AM.
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04-15-2007, 02:03 AM
most, if not all diesel owners on this site have bought their trucks knowing that they were paying a premium of 3.5K to 5K more for a diesel engine.....
for that extra money spent most are hoping to achieve durability, fuel efficiency, and greater pulling power.....
here's my rant bc i'm part of the small group interested in greater fuel efficiency..... we're getting screwed..... the weight of our trucks are easily 25% greater than they could be...... the manufacturers spend all their money stream lining the outsides of our trucks.....and never spend a dime smoothing out the undercarriages......
and lastly my tail gate has been getting heavier every time i lift it...... why does that sucker have to weight so much????
for that extra money spent most are hoping to achieve durability, fuel efficiency, and greater pulling power.....
here's my rant bc i'm part of the small group interested in greater fuel efficiency..... we're getting screwed..... the weight of our trucks are easily 25% greater than they could be...... the manufacturers spend all their money stream lining the outsides of our trucks.....and never spend a dime smoothing out the undercarriages......
and lastly my tail gate has been getting heavier every time i lift it...... why does that sucker have to weight so much????
