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Tour de Sol 
Advanced Vehicles on the Market
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2006 Tour de Sol CHAMPIONSHIPHow You Can Get InvolvedRegistration is a two-part process a) pay on-line b) fill in this form Follow these links for the Rules (Coming Soon!), Resources for student teams, and preview of registration fees The Tour de Sol Championship honors the "greenest vehicles' with good performance and practicality. In particular, we invite students, independent teams, and auto manufacturers to enter one-of-a-kind vehicles, prototypes, or production vehicles that aim to reduce oil use and climate change emissions to as near zero as possible. Vehicles entered in the Tour de Sol Championship participate in four days of events and earn points for events that assess the "greeness" of the vehicle by measuring fuel economy and climate change emissions, and assess conventional vehicle performance such as acceleration, braking, handling, driving range, and reliability. Vehicle efficiency and climate change emissions are assessed by collecting data on all of the fuels used over a given distance. We then use Argonne National Laboratories' GREET program to convert all fuel used to MPGe, or the miles driven on the energy equivalent to that in one gallon of gasoline. We are then able to calculate the grams of the climate change emissions per mile on a well to wheels basis (i.e. the full life cycle of the fuel from extraction or manufacture through use.) The % reduction of climate change emissions compares vehicle emissions to a conventional 27 MPG gasoline vehicle which emits 420 grams CO2/mile. Climate change emissions from electricity are based on emissions from Northeast power plants. Follow these links for an overview of how the scoring works, resources for students, that include information on how to build a safe car, and tips from past teams on preparing for the rally, raising money, getting into the news, and reaching out to your representatives. (links coming soon!) Follow these links to download the rules, check out the fees, register and pay online, and download the full registration form. (rules are coming soon!) The draft schedule of events includes:
2005 Entrants and Awards CATEGORY: ALTERNATIVE FUEL & HYBRID VEHICLES S&S AutoSport - #70 - 2002 Toyota Prius (Hybrid-gasoline-electric) 
Quebec Advanced Transportation Institute (ITAQ) - #10 Bio SMART (Biodiesel)
* Climate Change Emissions: % reduction compared to a conventional 27 MPG gasoline vehicle which emits 420 grams CO2/mile. Electricity based on emissions from Northeast power plants (California emissions would be less, national average would be more). nesea@nesea.org |
