Info Session

Our on campus outreach this past week was a huge success! Students from many years and majors were present to learn about our program. We started with a brief presentation by Brandon Davis about our EcoCAR Enterprise and the EcoCAR competition. The session concluded with a display of our vehicle and test drives around campus. This was a great opportunity to raise awareness of hybrid vehicle technology and to get more students involved.

MTU EcoCAR on Fast Cadillac

Michigan Tech's EcoCAR was recently featured in the Fast Cadillac blog. Read the full write-up here: Fast Cadillac

Return From Fall Workshop

After four workshop-packed days in Boston, the Michigan Tech EcoCAR team is back to Houghton to continue where they left off from Year 1 of the competition. Four members, Chris Lucier, Lucas Meeuwsen, Trever Hassell, and Eric Joseph along with advisor Dr. Wayne Weaver attended the workshop last week where they learned skills varying from advanced Simulink modeling to media relations. These skills will help the team develop their hybrid vehicle over the next two years.

Team Picture

Looking good!

- Chris Twarog

Racer X

We were on the way to Emissions testing and had to stop for a nice photo op. We're showing Englishtown that you can save fuel at the race track. Who wants to race for pinks :-)

Huskynox Means Business

The sun crested the tree line this morning, and the Huskynox was ready and waiting to dominate the competition.  The tech inspectors didn't bother with an inspection since the vehicles' reliability and the teams workmanship is well known and respected.

Well, it didn't go quite as scripted but due to some hard work by the team in the pits this bad machine is ready for a good flogging.  It is actually behaving quite well, and MTU has already claimed victory in one metric!

Big day tomorrow and Thursday when this country car gets to spend time with some city slickers down in NYC.

- Chris Twarog

So it Begins

We are all waking up this morning wondering what is in store for us.  A plane ride for sure for the ten of us traveling to Newark, NJ our first stop in the ten day road rally to Washington, DC.  You know there are ten of traveling, and these ten people know how to make a hybrid car, but I will be in shock if all ten of us show up on time to Newark.
-Radar