Mississippi State University Wins Top Honors

Students from Mississippi State University placed first in the 2010 EcoCAR: The NeXt Challenge finals in San Diego, Calif. after designing and building an exceptional biodiesel extended-range electric vehicle (EREV). Virginia Tech earned second place with an ethanol EREV design and Penn State came in third place building a biodiesel EREV vehicle. More...

Year Two Competition Finals

Year Two of the EcoCAR Challenge has proven to be a test of wills for the 16 North American universities participating in this fierce competition. Over the last academic year, EcoCAR teams have spent countless hours developing prototype advanced technology vehicles that will be judged in more than a dozen technical events at this year's competition finals, which will be held May 17-27, 2010. Events will take place at the GM Desert Proving Ground in Yuma, Arizona and at locations throughout San Diego, California. More...

EcoCAR Teams Gather at the Daytona International Speedway and Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University for Winter Workshop

Students may have been hoping for fun, sun and some beach time during the EcoCAR Winter Workshop, but instead they got HILs, emission inspections and even snow!

In early January teams assembled in Daytona Beach, Florida to participate in a three day workshop which included team presentations that were judged by an expert panel of industry and government sponsors. The Hardware-In-The-Loop (HIL) and Outreach presentations took place at Embry Riddle Aeronautical University where teams brought their HIL's to show the progress since they were first unveiled at the Year One finals. The level of the students' controls knowledge impressed judges from dSPACE, National Instruments, General Motors and Argonne National Laboratory. More...