Ethanol Car Beats Fuel Cells to Win European Eco-marathon

[JohnWxy]

http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/may2006/2006-05-22-03.asp

Ethanol Car Beats Fuel Cells to Win European Eco-marathon
Copyright Environment News Service (ENS) 2006.

NOGARO, France, May 22, 2006 (ENS) - An ethanol powered car engineered by French high school students has achieved the best fuel efficiency at the European Shell Eco-marathon 2006, winning the race at the Nogaro auto racing circuit in southwest France. It also took the Climate Friendly prize for producing the least greenhouse gas emissions in the process.


Engineering students from France's Lycee La Joliverie celebrated victory Sunday after their ethanol powered prototype vehicle completed seven laps of the Nogaro circuit with an energy consumption equivalent to traveling 2,885 kilometers (1,792 miles) on a single liter of gasoline.

Lycee La Joliverie is a high school in St. Sebastian-sur-Loire, France, that specializes in internal combustion engines.

“The performance of the ethanol team has shown that hydrogen powered vehicles are not the only solution to the Shell Eco-marathon challenge for energy efficiency," said Vincent Tertois, technical director for the Shell Eco-marathon.
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The hydrogen fuel cell powered Polytech Nantes-La Joliverie team from France had led the consumption rankings for much of the Eco-marathon weekend with a 2,730 km/l equivalent consumption – but eventually placed third after the hydrogen powered ESSTIN-Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy team, also of France.
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Maybe GM and Ford ought to ask these kids for some instruction!

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

1. 7,000 mpg.

Not too shabby.

[JohnWxy]

4. What surprises me is this was an Internal Combustion engine powered car!

I amazed it beat fuel cell cars!


"Lycee La Joliverie is a high school in St. Sebastian-sur-Loire, France, that specializes in internal combustion engines. "

“The performance of the ethanol team has shown that hydrogen powered vehicles are not the only solution to the Shell Eco-marathon challenge for energy efficiency," said Vincent Tertois, technical director for the Shell Eco-marathon.

[NI4NI]

2. Nah! GM & Ford will ask Bellow Reilly

to tell his listeners, phony "patriots" like himself, to boycott anything from France! LOL!

[JohnWxy]

3. Bellow Reilly? (LOL)