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The PAC Car - One Litre of Fuel Per 3836 Kilometres

May 24 2005

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The goal of the Shell Eco-marathon is to complete a distance of about 25 kilometres with a minimum average speed of 30 kph using the least possible amount of fuel. PAC-Car II is powered by a hydrogen fuel cell. Its energy con-sumption, as calculated in terms of gasoline, amounted to a sensational one litre per 3836 kilometres. This result earned PAC-Car II the first place!

PAC-Car II is a student project of ETH Zurich. More than 20 students worked on the project, most of them from the department of mechanical and process engi-neering. The main sponsor is the Swiss Federal Office for Energy (BfE). Project partners are the Paul Scherrer Institute and the industrial companies ESORO, RUAG and Tribecraft.

http://www.paccar.ethz.ch/

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