Mendota Heights, Minnesota

Category: UrbanConcept

Fuel: Battery Electric

Vehicle name: The Charlie Taylor Experience

SEM Americas 2016 record: 53 mi/kWH, 1st place in UrbanConcept, Battery Electric category

Quick Facts:

• The school always builds a new car from scratch so students gain the complete engineering experience of preparing and evaluating performance.
• Many students said this program helped decide their career choices. Former students have gone on to study engineering at Purdue, Duke, Notre Dame, Rose-Hulman, Stanford and other schools.
• For half of the team and the team advisor, this is their first time going abroad.
• For London, they changed the gearing for higher speed, so the car can reach 30 miles per hour (mph).
• Learn more about the team at http://www.facebook.com/staEVT