Student's Prototype Car Gets 2,585 Miles Per Gallon Chris Weller - Tech Insider
go to original April 26, 2016

Team members from Université Laval. (Shell Eco-Marathon)

Imagine making the 2,585-mile trip from New York City to Las Vegas on one tank of gas.

You might look silly doing it, but students from Université Laval, in Quebec, have theoretically made that outlandish trip possible with their prototype gasoline-powered car, the CT 2.0.

The Laval team took home the big prize at this year's Shell Eco-marathon Americas, a competition in which university students design a prototype car using various fuels, from gasoline to hydrogen fuel cells, in an attempt to maximize efficiency.

Laval's win follows a loss in the 2015 competition to the University of Toronto, which built a car that managed to achieve a mind-boggling 3,421 mpg. This year, however, the Toronto team maxed out at 2,364 mpg before the car failed to start on the final attempt.

More than 1,000 students comprising 124 teams participated in the competition. Together they represented seven countries: the US, Canada, Guatemala, Brazil, Ecuador, Mexico, and Puerto Rico.

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Related: More Than a 1,000 Students Participate in 10th Shell Eco-marathon Americas (Petrol Plaza)

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