HOUSTON -- Extreme mileage was the goal on the streets here as 42 student teams competed in the 2010 Shell Eco-marathon Americas, a challenge for students to design, build and test fuel-efficient ...

Hansel Sjukur, a University of Illinois freshman, is cool and collected despite last-minute hurdles facing his team. Sjukur and his peers have traveled hundreds of miles to compete in the Shell ...

Since 1985, the Shell Eco Marathon has pitched teams of students against each other in an attempt to see who can travel the furthest using the energy from one liter of fuel (or its equivalent). Teams ...

The Shell Eco-marathon showcases invention, innovation and eco-efficiency as the streets around Discovery Green become a test course for tomorrow's vehicles. College and high school teams from around ...

Houston, Texas, will be the place where this week a new fuel efficiency competition will take place. To kick off as the Shell Eco Marathon Americas on April 14, the competition is open for all those ...

Many of the cars are more like enclosed bicycles, and virtually none of them could operate on public roads or highways. But the Shell Eco-Marathon offers some useful lessons for the more than 100 high ...

The ‘XAM’ has been designed and manufactured by a student team from the Polytechnic of Turin named H2politO. The H2politO team was set up in 2007 to investigate the possibilities of designing, ...