Shared information from Houston Business Journal and Shell Oil Website
The Shell Eco-marathon Americas will be held in Houston next year, the first time the event has taken place outside Southern California since it began in 2007. For the website with all the information and rules, click here:
http://www.shell.com/home/content/ecomarathon/
The 2010 event will also mark the first time the race — in which student-built, energy efficient vehicles compete to travel the farthest using the least amount of energy — will be held on a road track. “Bringing the Shell Eco-marathon to our hometown of Houston provides the student teams with an all-new setting to stretch the boundaries of fuel efficiency,” said Marvin Odum, president of Shell Oil Co.
The eco-marathon has been around since its inception in Europe at a Shell research lab in 1939. The modern event was born in France in 1985. In 2007, the Americas event kicked off, and in 2010 Asia will also play host to its own eco-marathon.
Teams from the University of Houston, Lamar University in Beaumont and the University of Texas-El Paso were among 44 North and South American teams comprised of more than 500 students who participated in last year’s event, in which Laval University of Canada won the Prototype category with a vehicle that achieved more than 2,700 miles per gallon. In the Urban Concept category, for cars more likely to see mass production, Mater Dei High School of Evansville, Ind. took the grand prize with 433 mpg.
The 2010 Shell Eco-marathon Americas will be held at Discovery Green from March 26 to March 28
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