At the recent Shell Eco-marathon Asia 2014 challenge in Manila, Malaysian student teams swept up five awards, including three category victories.
The UiTM Eco-Sprint team from Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) Shah Alam won the Prototype Hydrogen category, achieving an energy consumption figure of 77.6 km per kWh. In second place came the UKM 2 Car Fuel Cell team from Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) that managed 52.1 km per kWh.
In the Prototype Gas-to-Liquids (GTL) diesel category, Monash University Malaysia’s Team Monash 2 beat out the Gernas team from Qatar University with a fuel consumption figure of 116.6 km per litre. The team also won the Shell Helix Tribology Award, an off-track award for students who effectively demonstrated how lubrication engineering principles could be used to improve fuel economy.
UiTM bagged another victory in the Urban Concept Hydrogen category through its Eco-Planet team, who netted 44.5 km per litre.
The Shell Eco-marathon Asia challenge moved to the streets of Luneta Park in Manila having previously been held at the Sepang International Circuit. The highest-scoring team this year, How Much Ethanol from Panjavidhya Technological College in Thailand obtained an astonishing 2,730 km per litre of ethanol, equivalent to driving from Manila to Jakarta and nearly beating the all-time record of 2,903 km per litre set in 2012.
This year’s event saw five out of 12 categories showing improved results over the previous year, despite the new, more challenging urban circuit.
“A street circuit certainly presents more difficulty as vehicles tend to consume more energy while navigating urban roads. The fact that teams are still making marked improvements on their scores and clocking new personal bests is extremely impressive,” said Norman Koch, Shell Eco-marathon technical director.
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Congrats Malaysia…we luv u…
Good job, best in Asia.
well-done uitm!
Grab some popcorn..the bashers are coming
Syabas UiTM, UKM n Monash Uni..
Go UiTM!
oh my alma mater you make me proud…
Ehh 2903 km per litre world record broken with 2730 km per litre…. ??
it says nearly beaten the world record. huhu
Logeswaran…read carefully…’almost beating’ la…
Well done to all the Malaysian teams who took part. I hope it does not end with just the race, but continue to evolve and improve. The ideas should also be patented and who knows one day it would find its way into a production car and improve fuel consumption drastically.
Just a footnote, fuel efficient cars should also look beautiful,not just technically efficient. The commercial apects should not be ignored in the overall equation. A beautiful car and an ugly one took the same effort to design. Cheers!
PS: to LOL, bashers are people who cannot give constructive comments.
He’s referring to all those jelly beans who never give constructive comments and who condemns and complaints all the time…he’s being sarcastic…
Si Senor Leonardo, I was referring to these kind of comments. Feel free to browse the comments sections:
http://paultan.org/2013/05/31/perodua-eco-challenge-2013-redesigning-a-myvi/
http://paultan.org/2013/12/17/politeknik-ungku-omar-wins-perodua-eco-challenge-2013/
http://paultan.org/2012/07/23/politeknik-ungku-omar-is-perodua-eco-challenge-2012-overall-champion-unisel-goes-the-furthest/
http://paultan.org/2012/10/05/proton-green-mobility-challenge-2012-10-saga-evs-from-local-universities-set-for-sepang-challenge/
I was just wondering whether that these people are pessimistic of Malaysians’ abilities/achievements or rather, they got inferiority complex.
Well done Malaysia. Hopefully we can commercialise this!
Just to add some info, some of the categories won only have two or few competing teams.
Well…u can only beat whats in front of you…
Good job Malaysians even though the Indons and Pinoy groups dominated. More details here:
http://www.philstar.com/sports/2014/02/10/1288750/indonesia-thailand-dominate-shell-eco-marathon-asia
http://www.shell.com/global/environment-society/ecomarathon/events/asia/results.html/l/7vtbzw2hj2/mu3d4xo00h/_/_/_/_/_
Eh I thought UiTM is a low class university with low class graduates… Looks like UiTM just shot the naysayers right on the forehead.