student groups from Singapore racing in Shell’s eco-marathon with highly efficient cars
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The Southeast-Asian citystate of Singapore has a reputation as a global hub for trade, travel and financial services. Diversifying its economy, Singapore is making a bet on biotech, telecommunications and clean energy technologies.
Especially solar power can easily become an important energy source on this tropical island. Due to its compactness and world-class infrastructure, it’d also be easy to establish a new infastructure of fast-charging stations as a first step to mass-introduce electric cars. Driving range wouldn’t be a problem either for most Singaporean drivers since it takes you less than an hour to drive from one end of Singapore to the other.
It comes as no surprise that Singapore’s universities are leading in the development of clean energy technologies.
Three student groups participated in the Shell Eco-Marathon, a competition in which participants compete against each other in highly efficient cars. The goal is to develop vehicles with the highest fuel efficiency possible. The Singaporean university teams built one car powered by hydrogen, one powered by solar and one powered by petrol. The $60,000 solar-car from Nanyang Technological University achieved a mileage equivalent of 806 kilometers on a single liter of fuel.
Obviously the featured cars are neither practical nor affordable. But they draw attention to alternative propulsion technologies and give us an idea of how far efficiency improvements as well as completely new vehicle concepts can get us.
Read the full article on http://www.asiaone.com/Motoring/Motorworld/Story/A1Story20090511-140661.html
May 28th, 2009 at 11:17 PM
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