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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 →

General Motors launches ChallengeX followup: EcoCar, the NeXt Challenge Sam Abuelsamid

Last spring, General Motors wrapped up the fou- year Challenge X program where 17 university teams from the United States and Canada competed to design and build a hybrid drive Chevrolet Equinox. At ...

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 ...

GM announces ChallengeX follow-up, EcoCAR, the NeXT Challenge Sam Abuelsamid

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 ...

Toyota likes free money, signs on to Thailand's eco-car plan Lascelles Linton

Toyota told Reuters they will join Thailand's plan to be the eco-friendly car production capital of the world. Trying to repair the economic damage to the Thai car industry from the 2006 coup, the ...


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