This is essentially an oriental perspective, but today, we take a look at the Shell Eco Marathon Americas, which concluded sometime this week in Houston Texas.
First thing: these Americans are idiots. Since they haven't been able to compete with Europe in terms of SEM mileages, they have been inflating their figures by using mpg (miles per gallon) figures, and not the km/l figures used universally. You do the conversion yourself.
Prototype Category:
Some Canadian team did 2,564.8 mpg to win the Internal Combustion prize. This, by the way is 1,090 km/L. The best Asia managed in 2010 was 1,522 km/L. Suck on that, you...imperialists!
First prize in the plug-in category went to a US high school team, which managed 386.2 mi/kWh. This is 618 km/Kwh. The gauntlet has been thrown for Primus, although this may be a target too far.
Urban Concept Category.
Highest in Americas was 646.7 mpg (275 km/L). Asia's highest was 238 km/L, so here is slight raising of the bar. Again, a tough call for Kaar.
Obviously, there were many more results, categories and awards. Hope you don't expect me to go through them all. DIY:
http://www.shell.com/home/content/ecomarathon/americas/media/event_highlights/2011/04172011_final.html
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