University of Waterloo, UWEMC Team

While the U of T and Queen’s teams have designed and built vehicles fueled by gasoline, the University of Waterloo’s UWEMC team set themselves apart with their battery electric prototype named Javelin. Weighing 35kg, Javelin is significantly lighter than the gasoline-fueled cars.

The UWEMC team recently held an on campus unveiling event to showcase their vehicle – an aerodynamically shaped model, with narrow rounded windows on the side and a larger curved window on the front. The students are putting finishing touches on development of a new motor controller, and looking at potential paint schemes to make the vehicle more attention-grabbing at the competition.

Their main goal in 2015? To win first place in the battery-electric prototype category.  Building off of competition outcomes from 2014, the UWEMC team plans to continue learning - and developing new vehicles for the Shell Eco-marathon - for years to come!

See their Twitter and YouTube pages for more team information.

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