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The energy efficiency festival, called Shell Eco-marathon, has been organised by Shell for over 30 years. The 2018 Asia-Pacific edition was held at the Changi Exhibition Centre in Singapore and this year’s edition saw 120 teams from engineering and technology institutes from 18 countries, including 9 Indian teams.
Norman Koch, general manager, Shell Eco-marathon, said, “the Shell Eco-marathon is not about speed, it’s about fuel efficiency. So, we invite the brightest and smartest future scientists and engineers to come here and design, build and test drive a vehicle that could go the furthest distance using the least amount of energy.”
The teams of students showed off their energy efficient prototypes which fit into two categories – prototype and urban concept. There are three sub-categories, namely internal combustion engine, battery-electric and hydrogen fuel cell. Team Panvidhya1 from Panvidhya Technological College, Thailand, which took part in the ‘internal combustion’ engine sub-category, achieved an efficiency of 2,341.1kpl, to beat the old record. Last year’s record of 2,289kpl was set by a team from Guangzhou College of South China University of Technology, China.
In the main Prototype category, Team Huaqi-EV, China, in ‘battery electric’ and Team TP ECO FLASH, Singapore, in ‘hydrogen fuel cell’, which achieved 511km/kWh and 404.3km/m3, respectively. In the Urban Concept category, ITS Team 2 from Indonesia won in ‘internal combustion’ by achieving 314.5kpl, Team LH-EST from Vietnam won in ‘battery electric’ by achieving 129.3km/kWh, and Team NTU Singapore 3D-Printed Car from Singapore came out victorious in ‘hydrogen fuel cell’ by achieving 46km/m3.
Team 520 DTU Supermileage from Delhi Technical University bagged an award for their communications strategy.
On November 28, the car was stopped by traffic police at the Helmet crossroad in Ahmedabad as it had no number plates.
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