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...

GM Donated Vehicles Begin to Arrive at EcoCAR Campuses

EcoCAR: The NeXt Challenge kicked off Year Two of the competition when students from seventeen North American universities gathered in Boston for a five-day workshop filled with training courses to enable them to successfully implement their vehicle designs into the donated vehicles GM has been delivering to the team’s campuses. More...

UPCOMING EVENTS

SAE Congress

Detroit, Michigan, U.S.A.

April 13-15, 2010

EcoCAR Competition Finals

Stage 1: Yuma, AZ, May 17-22, 2010

Stage 2: San Diego, CA, May 23-27, 2010