The final year of the EcoCar Challenge ended with an impressive show of the young engineers’ green vehicle technologies, which included extended-range, hybrid, plug-in and fuel-cell electric vehicles. 16 North American universities were challenged to design and construct a near- production prototype vehicle with the goal of improving fuel economy and lowering greenhouse gas emissions, while retaining consumer accept- ability in the areas of performance, utility and safety. ecocar page 28 dSPACE Magazine 2/2011 · © dSPACE GmbH, Paderborn, Germany · info@dspace.com · www.dspace.comwinners And the are...? Final round of the three-year competition EcoCAR: The NeXt Challenge page 29 dSPACE Magazine 2/2011 · © dSPACE GmbH, Paderborn, Germany · info@dspace.com · www.dspace.comThe W

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