Team from Université Laval in Quebec, Canada captured Internal Combustion First Prize
In the 2011 Shell Eco-Marathon Americas, a competition that challenges high school and college students to design vehicles that use the least amount of energy, the team from Université Laval in Quebec, Canada captured first place in the "Internal Combustion" category with an astonishing run of 2,564.8 mpg in the "Prototype" class. This marks the third consecutive year that this school has topped the rankings, and this year they beat the 2010 mark by 77 miles per gallon.
In the 'UrbanConcept' class, the team from Louisiana Tech University grabbed first place by posting a still-respectable 646.7 mpg. The 'Prototype' category aims for maximum efficiency without regard to actual real-world driveability, while the 'UrbanConcept' category encourages entrants to construct vehicles that are closer to actual road-going autos. If we could get 646 mpg out of our city cruisers, we'd be pretty pleased.
The 62 teams participating in Shell Eco-marathon Americas 2011 entered 56 Prototype vehicles and 12 UrbanConcept automobiles. The Prototype entries consisted of 39 vehicles powered by internal combustion engines, nine powered solely by batteries, three by fuel cell technology and five by solar. The UrbanConcept entries consisted of nine vehicles powered by internal combustion engines, one solely by batteries, on by fuel cell technology and one by the power of the sun.
[Source: Shell]
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