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Some people are just meant to go places. In the case of 16-year old Azeem Hill and the rest of Simon Hauger's West Philadelphia-based high-school hybrid team, that place is somewhere into the vastly expanding world of alternative fuel technology.
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Philadelphia High School Students Build Automotive X Prize Contender [with Videos]
Some people are just meant to go places. In the case of 16-year old Azeem Hill and the rest of Simon Hauger's West Philadelphia-based high-school hybrid team, that place is somewhere into the vastly expanding world of alternative fuel technology.
The West Philly Hybrid X Team, builders of the EVX GT and EVX Focus, is the result of an after-school program at the Academy of Automotive and Mechanical Engineering meant to educate youth about the future of hybrid tech and transportation. What's more impressive is that this young underdog team was in the running for this year's Automotive X Prize.
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According to the all-knowing Wikipedia, the term soccer mom "broadly refers to a middle-class woman who spends a significant amount of her time transporting her school-age children to their sporting events or other activities" in a minivan...
- College Students Preparing Ford Focus Rs For 24h Of Nürburgring Race
A group of students from the Cologne University of Applied Science in Germany are preparing a race contender based on the 305HP Focus RS supplied by Ford for this year's 24-hour race at the Nürburgring circuit on May 15 - 16. The students will...
- Americanized Russian Inventor Of The Hybrid System Honored
The A. James Clark School of Engineering at the University of Maryland in College Park will honor the inventor of the hybrid power system used in the Toyota Prius and other hybrid cars, Alex J. Severinsky by inducting him into the Clark School's Innovation...
- Ford Fusion Hydrogen 999 Will Attempt To Break World Land Speed Record
This August FoMoCo will take its Ford Fusion Hydrogen 999 fuel cell car to the Bonneville Salt Flats in an attempt to set the world land speed record for a production-based hydrogen fuel cell powered vehicle. The Ford Fusion Hydrogen 999 was designed...
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Recently, Car & Driver magazine tested a Nissan Altima Hybrid. The Altima's greenest version takes a lot of its technology (and the research behind it) from Toyota. The hardware is very similar to what Toyota offers in the Camry Hybrid, but optimized...