Shell Eco-marathon Asia – Malaysians nab five awards

Asia 2014 Awards Ceremony

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.

Asia 2014 On The Track

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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Jonathan Lee

After trying to pursue a career in product design, Jonathan Lee decided to make the sideways jump into the world of car journalism instead. He therefore appreciates the aesthetic appeal of a car, but for him, the driving experience is still second to none.

 

Comments

  • AutoFrenz on Feb 11, 2014 at 11:41 am

    Congrats Malaysia…we luv u…

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  • Lemer on Feb 11, 2014 at 11:43 am

    Good job, best in Asia.

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  • krizalid on Feb 11, 2014 at 11:46 am

    well-done uitm!

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  • Grab some popcorn..the bashers are coming

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  • Jebonr on Feb 11, 2014 at 12:19 pm

    Go UiTM!

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  • logeswaran on Feb 11, 2014 at 12:41 pm

    Ehh 2903 km per litre world record broken with 2730 km per litre…. ??

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  • Leonardo on Feb 11, 2014 at 12:43 pm

    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.

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    • AutoFrenz on Feb 11, 2014 at 3:04 pm

      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…

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    • 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.

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  • BLT Club on Feb 11, 2014 at 2:59 pm

    Well done Malaysia. Hopefully we can commercialise this!

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  • Just to add some info, some of the categories won only have two or few competing teams.

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  • tishaban on Feb 11, 2014 at 7:29 pm

    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/_/_/_/_/_

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  • hello on Feb 12, 2014 at 1:36 am

    Eh I thought UiTM is a low class university with low class graduates… Looks like UiTM just shot the naysayers right on the forehead.

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