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EcoCAR, Year Two starts in Boston; student engineers cleaning up the Saturn Vue

GM may have discarded the Saturn brand in the company's bankruptcy, but there are still at least 150 young engineers working hard to turn a Saturn Vue into the most efficient vehicle possible. The engineers are all students from 17 universities who are participating in the EcoCAR challenge, the three-year follow-up to Challenge X. The 17 EcoCAR teams have now spent a year doing the theoretical work to pick the powertrain they want to install in their Vue. EcoCAR guidelines allow them to "explore a variety of cutting-edge clean vehicle ... Read more →

EDTA 2008: GM shows off EcoCar Saturn Vue Sebastian Blanco

Last year, at the end of the Challenge X, GM announced the EcoCar competition for engineering students at universities in North America to rework a GM vehicle to be better and cleaner. The ...

Paris 2008: Peugeot-Citroen HYmotion4 hybrid drive system Sam Abuelsamid

Traditionally, automakers use the biggest auto shows in their home countries as a platform to display their latest and greatest ideas, both aesthetic and technological. Such was clearly the case ...

Hey, guys! Survey says a green car will help you with the ladies Jeremy Korzeniewski

Daryl Hannah prefers guys with green cars We've been covering Challenge X since we first started our blogging careers, but we somehow missed the results of an extremely interesting survey which was ...

Interview with Prof. Andrew Frank, head of the UC Davis Challenge X entry, Team Fate Dane Muldoon

Back in January we told you about Team Fate, the UC Davis entry in the Challenge X: Crossover to Sustainable Mobility competition. Team Fate are outfitting a GM Equinox with a plug-in electric hybrid ...

Team Fate beefing up a GM Equinox with li-ions for Challenge X 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

The Challenge X: Crossover to Sustainable Mobility engineering competition is on. And the University of California, Davis Hybrid Electric Vehicle Group (Team Fate) is calling on Lithium Technology Corporation (LTC) to help them out in re-engineering the Chevy Equinox to use lithium-ion cells. The ...

Rose-Hulman students show off Challenge X Equinox at Colts playoff game 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

The Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology crashed a tailgate party in their class-built hybrid before the Indianapolis Colts first playoff game. Competing in the Challenge X, the team showed off its Chevy Equinox that has a biofuel diesel engine and two electric motors. The team has been working on ...

Wired NextFest Report: Wrap-up and more advanced vehicles 3 years ago on Autoblog Green

(Editor's note: to read the rest of Derrick's NextFest coverage, click here) Overall, Wired's NextFest certainly wasn't the Paris Motor Show, nor was it meant to be. Instead, it was a gathering of new technologies in many different fields. On the positive side, I'd say that if there was any ...

Wired NextFest Report: Virginia Tech's ethanol-electric Equinox 3 years ago on Autoblog Green

Ohio State wasn't the only school exhibiting an impressive alternative-powered car at NextFest. The Hybrid Electric Vehicle Team (HEVT) from Virginia Tech brought along their Challenge X-winning Equinox. Challenge X is a 3-phase competition in which 17 teams were chosen to re-engineer an Equinox ...

"Moovada", the first diesel-hybrid SUV 3 years ago on Autoblog Green

The University of Wisconsin-Madison placed second in Challenge X, a competition to develop a powerful, fuel-efficient SUV. Unlike many of its competitors, the Wisconsin-Madison team opted to use a diesel engine instead of a regular gasoline engine. This provided the SUV - a donated Chevrolet ...

Virginians win second year 2006 Challenge X hybrid SUV contest 3 years ago on Autoblog Green

For the past few months we've reported about the Challenge X competition where various college students--and even a smattering of high schoolers--compete to develop a hybrid SUV. Well, the winners for the second year of the three year competition has been announced. Virginia Polytechnic Institute ...

More students rev up hybrids for Challenge X competition 3 years ago on Autoblog Green

This week students at the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology (RHIT) unveiled their entry for the upcoming Challenge X contest sponsored by General Motors and the Department of Energy. The Chevrolet Equinox donated by contest co-sponsor General Motors is powered by a biodiesel hybrid engine. ...


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