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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 →

Meet the Ecocustom, a project for Shell's EcoMarathon Xavier Navarro

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/autos/Meet_the_Ecocustom_a_project_for_Shell_s_EcoMarathon'; Every year, Shell organizes an EcoMarathon, where the aim is to run a vehicle as far as possible on a ...

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 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 ...

An early look at some of the Shell Eco-Marathon competition vehicles Jeremy Korzeniewski

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 ...

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 ...

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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