Documents a student engineering competition in which universities compete in modifying a donated SUV to achieve a more fuel efficient vehicle.
About Company
Welcome to the University of Ontario Institute of Technology's (UOIT) EcoCAR website. We are one of three Canadian universities chosen to participate in the EcoCAR: The Next Challenge automotive engineering competition. The EcoCAR competition aims to convert a GM-donated crossover vehicle into a very ecofriendly vehicle. UOIT chose it's vehicle architecture to include a fully electric vehicle.
UOIT owns Canada's largest electric vehicle fleet. Electric buses, pick-up trucks, electric bicycles, even a hydrogren hybrid electric wheel chair!
UOIT has Canada's only Bachelor level automotive enginering program. The EcoCAR competition will showcase UOIT's capacity to train the next generation of engineers for North America's automobile industry.
The UOIT team is advised by Dr. Greg Rograuer, academic director of the new General Motor Automotive Centre of Excellence, and Dr. Mikael Eklund.
