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European Shell Eco Marathon Europe 2009: more than 8000 mpg!

2009 Shell Eco Marathon winners - Click above for an image gallery The 25th edition of the Shell Eco Marathon took place last week at the German circuit of Lausitz, and quite a number of records were broken. A French team from the Lycée Saint Joseph la Joliverie in Nantes has improved upon its own record with its MicroJoule prototype, which managed to run 3771 kilometers on a single liter of gasoline. That's well over 8000 miles per gallon! A solar-powered car, also from a French team, traveled 665 kilometers using a single kWh of ... Read more →

Shell CEO: electric cars are old news, biofuels are the future Sebastian Blanco

Shell has stated its preference for hydrogen and biofuels in the past. What they haven't gone out of their way to do, though, was to aggravate electric vehicle fans by dismissing their powertrain of ...

Shell Eco-marathon returns in April - will anyone beat last year's 6,792 mpg record? Sebastian Blanco

The all-time highest mpg (equivalent) rating achieved at a Shell eco-marathon is 10,705 miles per gallon. That record was set in 2003 at the European Shell Eco-marathon. The Shell Eco-marathon ...

Hypermiling update: Shell Eco-Marathon coming back to the U.S. next year Sebastian Blanco

Last week Ray Holan wrote a feature article for AutoblogGreen about hypermiling. In it, he mentioned the Shell Eco-Marathon in Europe (where teams design cars for maximum fuel efficiency and a 2003 ...

The 131 mpg Caterham Seven Alex Nunez

The annual Shell Eco-Marathon is a competition designed to find the entrant whose car achieves the maximum fuel economy after driving 40 minutes and completing seven laps around the track at a ...

European Shell Eco Marathon Europe 2009: more than 8000 mpg! 6 months ago on Autoblog Green

2009 Shell Eco Marathon winners - Click above for an image gallery The 25th edition of the Shell Eco Marathon took place last week at the German circuit of Lausitz, and quite a number of records were broken. A French team from the Lycée Saint Joseph la Joliverie in Nantes has improved ...

Shell CEO: electric cars are old news, biofuels are the future 6 months ago on Autoblog Green

Shell has stated its preference for hydrogen and biofuels in the past. What they haven't gone out of their way to do, though, was to aggravate electric vehicle fans by dismissing their powertrain of choice. Royal Dutch Shell CEO, Jereoen van der Veer, has filled in that little oversight yesterday ...

Shell Eco-marathon returns in April - will anyone beat last year's 6,792 mpg record? 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

The all-time highest mpg (equivalent) rating achieved at a Shell eco-marathon is 10,705 miles per gallon. That record was set in 2003 at the European Shell Eco-marathon. The Shell Eco-marathon returns to the United States next month and will see students try to squeeze every last centimeter out of ...

Hypermiling update: Shell Eco-Marathon coming back to the U.S. next year 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Last week Ray Holan wrote a feature article for AutoblogGreen about hypermiling. In it, he mentioned the Shell Eco-Marathon in Europe (where teams design cars for maximum fuel efficiency and a 2003 team got the equivalent of 10,705 mpg). There is also a Shell Eco-Marathon in the UK. Well, this ...

The 131 mpg Caterham Seven 3 years ago on Autoblog Green

The annual Shell Eco-Marathon is a competition designed to find the entrant whose car achieves the maximum fuel economy after driving 40 minutes and completing seven laps around the track at a minimum of 15 mph. Cars can run on gasoline, diesel, LPG, or hydrogen. This year's UK event was held at ...


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