{"id":1316,"date":"2007-06-12T20:24:25","date_gmt":"2007-06-12T18:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/en.greenmedia.md\/?p=1316"},"modified":"2007-06-12T20:24:25","modified_gmt":"2007-06-12T18:24:25","slug":"challengex-gm-supports-alternative-vehicle-research-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/challengex-gm-supports-alternative-vehicle-research-2.html","title":{"rendered":"ChallengeX &#8211; GM Supports Alternative Vehicle Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenoptions.com\/files\/images\/gm%20012_0.img_assist_custom.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Terrence Williams from UC-Davis (Team Fate) plug-in hybrid\" width=\"240\" height=\"320\" \/><strong>Terrence Williams from UC-Davis (Team Fate) plug-in hybrid<\/strong>I had the opportunity last week to visit General Motors&#039; headquarters in downtown Detroit for an event with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.challengex.org\/\">ChallengeX<\/a> program.  ChallengeX is a program co-sponsored by GM and the US Department of Energy.  Teams from universities across the US (and one from Canada) were given a stock Chevrolet Equinox to use as the base vehicle platform and were challenged to improve its efficiency and reduce its fuel use.  &quot;Seventeen teams have been challenged to re-engineer a GM Equinox, a crossover sport utility vehicle to minimize energy consumption, emissions, and greenhouse gases while maintaining or exceeding the vehicle&#039;s utility and performance.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>This is a multi-year program, which has already gone through two years of evaluations and awards.  And, while the initial information I had about the program was that this was the conclusion of the challenge, I learned that there is going to be a fourth year to the program, which will focus on consumer acceptability issues.<\/p>\n<p>The top three programs for this year&#039;s competition were Mississipi State (1st place), University of Wisconsin (2nd place), and Virginia Tech (3rd place).  The vehicles went through a multi-day testing at GM&#039;s proving grounds, and were judged on numerous criteria.  More information about the ChallengeX results can be found on <a href=\"http:\/\/fyi.gmblogs.com\/2007\/06\/challenge_x_comes_to_completio.html\">GM&#039;s FYI blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Terrence Williams from UC-Davis (Team Fate) plug-in hybridI had the opportunity last week to visit General Motors&#039; headquarters in downtown Detroit for an event with the ChallengeX program. ChallengeX is a program co-sponsored by GM and the US Department of Energy. Teams from universities across the US (and one from Canada) were given a stock [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}