Engineering Students Compete to Shape the Future of EVs (Download)

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Why on Earth would General Motors invite a bunch of college students to hack up, hop up, and second-guess the engineering that went into one of its most advanced EVs? It's not as crazy as you might first think, and part of a long-standing four-year collegiate engineering competition, known as the EcoCAR EV Challenge (Fig. 1). The event is the latest in an ongoing collaboration between the Department of Energy Advanced Vehicle Technology Competitions (AVTC) and leading automakers, managed by Argonne National Laboratory and sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy (DoE)*.