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Mississippi State's hybrid biodiesel Equinox wins Challenge X

Photo by Roy Feldman/Challenge X The 2008 Challenge X is over and a hybrid clean diesel version of the Chevrolet Equinox (running on B20) has driven away with the top prize. Mississippi State University is the team behind the winning vehicle, and beat out 16 other student teams from across North America. As we learned when we rode in Michigan Technological University's hybrid Equinox last month, Challenge X is a multi-year challenge to modify an Equinox to get more miles per gallon while not giving up any comfort or performance. Teams tried ... Read more →

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 ...

SAE Congress '08: Riding in MTU's Challenge X hybrid Equinox (video) Sebastian Blanco

I took a ride this morning through downtown Detroit in a 30+ mpg Equinox. Originally, the 2005 Equinox got 25 mpg on the highway and 19 in the city. Two Michigan Technological University seniors ...

SAE Congress '08: MTU's Challenge X green vehicle coming to Detroit Sebastian Blanco

The three-year Challenge X program from GM will end in May with a championship announcement in Washington, D.C. 17 student teams are adding biofuel, hybrid, PHEV and/or hydrogen fuel cell propulsion ...

Challenge X teams swing by Jay Leno's garage Sam Abuelsamid

Last spring we provided a bunch of coverage of Year Three of GM's Challenge X program. Challenge X is a GM-sponsored student competition where teams from universities all around North America use the ...

GM announces ChallengeX follow-up, EcoCAR, the NeXT Challenge 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

The Challenge-X student design competition sponsored by General Motors and the Department of Energy is now in the last of a four-year schedule with the final phase coming up in May 2008. The Challenge-X gave teams of engineering students the opportunity to convert a Chevrolet Equinox to an ...

Driving impressions of Challenge-X competitors 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

At the award press conference for Year three of the Challenge-X competition General Motors provided the opportunity for attendees to ride and drive in some of the competitor vehicles. I had time to drive the vehicles from Michigan Tech University, University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Ohio State ...

2007 Challenge-X: And the winner is.... 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

... Mississippi State University. The team from Mississippi built a through-the-road parallel hybrid system into an Equinox. The internal combustion engine was a 1.9L Opel turbocharged and direct injected diesel engine driving the front wheels through an automatic transmission and fueled by B20 ...

2007 Challenge-X update: Rick Wagoner stops by 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Rick Wagoner checks out the Challenge-X competitors, click the image for more photos As the year three competition for Challenge-X continued on Friday at the GM Proving Ground, GM Chairman Rick Wagoner stopped by to check out the activity. Wagoner toured the work area where students were working on ...

Challenge-X competitors go to GM Proving Ground for year three 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Click on the photos for more images from the Challenge-X competition Seventeen teams of engineering students from all over North America descended on the GM Proving Ground in Milford, MI this week to participate in the Challenge-X competition. This is the third year of a four year cycle in the ...


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