Category: "Under the Hood"

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  EcoCAR 3 Year 4 Events from GM Desert Proving Grounds in Yuma, AZ

  EcoCAR 3 Year 4 Events from GM Desert Proving Grounds in Yuma, AZ

  The EcoCAR 3 teams just wrapped up 5 eventful days at the General Motors Proving Grounds in Yuma, AZ! The teams spent their time putting the final touches on their vehicles so they could pass ...

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  E&EC Overnight Event

  E&EC Overnight Event

  The Emissions and Energy Consumption event is a 90 mile-long event that is designed to evaluate four key areas of student vehicles: energy consumption, tailpipe emissions, greenhouse gas ...

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  Update from the Pits: Students Say

  Update from the Pits: Students Say

  It’s Day 4  at the General Motors Desert Proving Grounds and the EcoCAR 3 teams are working hard on their vehicles. We went to the garage to talk to the students about what their experiences are ...

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  Year 4 Safety Tech Inspections

  Year 4 Safety Tech Inspections

  It’s Day 3 of Competition, and teams are excitedly passing Safety Tech Inspections one by one.   So far, 8 teams have successfully completed the inspection required before they run any dynamic ...

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  Welcome to the Year 4 Competition!

  Welcome to the Year 4 Competition!

  For students traveling from across North America, the big day is finally here. It’s officially Day 1 of the EcoCAR 3 Final Competition. Four years ago, we challenged 16 schools to transform a ...

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  McMaster: ADAS Systems Are Go!

  McMaster: ADAS Systems Are Go!

  The McMaster EcoCAR3 team is proud to be at the forefront of automotive safety through the use of ADAS. Advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) are an amalgamation of human-machine interface ...

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  MSU’s Plug-in Hybrid-Electric Chevrolet Camaro

  MSU’s Plug-in Hybrid-Electric Chevrolet Camaro

  EcoCAR 3, a four-year Advanced Vehicle Technology Competition (AVTC), challenges 16 North American universities to redesign a 2016 Chevrolet Camaro into a hybrid-electric vehicle while also ...

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  Dynamic Events at the GM Desert Proving Ground

  Dynamic Events at the GM Desert Proving Ground

  On day one of competition, students will anxiously line up outside the garage at General Motor’s Desert Proving Ground in Yuma, AZ, in order to get the earliest start possible on making sure ...

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  The Emissions Testing Event Wraps up at TRC

  The Emissions Testing Event Wraps up at TRC

  After two weeks of extensive vehicle testing, the Emissions Testing Event (ETE) at the Transportation Research Center (TRC) in East Liberty, Ohio has come to an end. Teams were given the ...

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  Georgia Tech Makes Major Improvements During Fourth Year of EcoCAR 3

  Georgia Tech Makes Major Improvements During Fourth Year of EcoCAR 3

  Written by Malea Fernandes In their fourth year of competition, the Georgia Tech EcoCAR 3 team has made substantial improvements. Since Year One, the team has challenged themselves to learn from ...

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  The University of Tennessee’s Innovation Project: Integrated Converter

  The University of Tennessee’s Innovation Project: Integrated Converter

  The University of Tennessee’s EcoCAR 3 innovation team is working to design a new power converter that will improve the performance of electric vehicles (EVs). The team is working to merge two ...

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  MSU Strives to Increase Engine’s Efficiency and Performance with Water Injection

  MSU Strives to Increase Engine’s Efficiency and Performance with Water Injection

  The Mississippi State University (MSU) EcoCAR 3 team seeks to innovate automotive technology that focuses on improving efficiency while maintaining the vehicle’s high-performance standards. By ...

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