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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 →

New record at Shell Eco-marathon: 2,843 mpg Sebastian Blanco

click to enlarge And here I thought 1,902.7 mpg was a lot. That was the winning rating at last year's Shell Eco-Marathon Americas coutresy of Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo. This year, three teams had a ...

2008 Shell Eco-marathon Americas roster - all 38 teams - announced Sebastian Blanco

We're getting close to the start of the 2008 Shell Eco-marathon Americas, and the list of 38 teams that will participate in the competition in some ways mimics real-world power train usage. The ...

2008 Shell Eco-marathon coming in April; will anyone best 1902 mpg? Sebastian Blanco

Last year, Cal Poly (ok, ok, California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo) won the Shell Eco-Marathon Americas with an astounding 1,902.7 mpg score. For 2008, 34 teams will compete at ...

42 mpg Captiva in the MPG Marathon = green SUV Sebastian Blanco

In this week's MPG Marathon, a Chevy Captiva with seven people on board returned 42.42 mpg. GM has helpfully done the math for us: that's 14.35 percent more than the official figure (37.2 mpg) and ...

An early look at some of the Shell Eco-Marathon competition vehicles 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Do you remember when we ran an article about the Shell Eco-marathon? Does the sound of 6,792 miles per gallon jog your memory? Think that's high? That can't hold a candle to the all-time record of 10,705 miles per gallon set in 2003! That kind of mileage is impressive, even if the vehicles used to ...

Eco-M makes debut at Sexy Green Car Show 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

The Axon Eco-M sports car is a sleeker, lightweight version of the Caterham 7 and designed for maximum fuel economy. It uses the standard 1.4-liter petrol engine but the aerodynamics are improved by removing the roof and windshield. Many components made from carbon fiber remove weight. The result is ...

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 ...

European Shell Eco-Marathon contestant hits 6785 mpg 3 years ago on Autoblog Green

The vehicles in this year's European Shell Eco-Marathon are not exactly the cars you'd want to go on a road trip in, but they can go amazing distances on very little fuel. Engineering students from the Lucee La Joliverie School in France entered this year's top mileage-getter. Their ethanol-powered ...

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