2006 Tour de Sol CHAMPIONSHIP
How You Can Get Involved
Registration is a two-part process a) pay on-line b) fill in this PDF form
Follow these links for the rules, resources for student teams, a preview of registration fees and how the scoring works (coming soon).
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 "green-ness" 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.
The draft schedule of events includes:
| Tuesday, May 9 | Arrive at Saratoga Springs in the evening |
| Wednesday, May 10 | On-site registration, technical testing, acceleration and hill climb events |
| Thursday, May 11 | 50-mile drive, press events, Team-to-Team presentations |
| Friday, May 12 | Display at "Student Day" followed by Range, Reliability and Efficiency event |
| Saturday, May 13 | Display at Saratoga's Spring Auto Show followed by Autocross event |
| Sunday, May 14 | Awards Brunch |
2005 Entrants and Awards
CATEGORY: ALTERNATIVE FUEL & HYBRID VEHICLES
Production Vehicles - Independent Teams
S&S AutoSport - #70 - 2002 Toyota Prius (Hybrid-gasoline-electric)
1st Place in Category 10th Place - Low Climate Change Emissions (50% reduction)* 8th Place - Fuel Economy (54 MPG) 5th Place - Hill Climb (12 seconds) 2nd Place - Autocross (40 seconds) 4th Place - Acceleration (11 seconds) |
Quebec Advanced Transportation Institute (ITAQ) - #10 Bio SMART (Biodiesel)
2nd Place in Category 4th Place - Low Climate Change Emissions (65% reduction)* 7th Place - Fuel Economy (67 MPG) 3rd Place - Autocross (41 seconds) 8th Place - Acceleration (13 seconds) |
CATEGORY: PROTOTYPE VEHICLES - STUDENT TEAMS
West Philly EV Team - #2 Hybrid Attack (Hybrid - biodiesel electric)
1st Place in Category 2nd Place - Low Climage Change Emissions (85% reduction)* 10th Place - Fuel Economy (50 MPG) 4th Place - Hill Climb (11 seconds) 1st Place - Autocross (36 seconds) 3rd Place - Acceleration (10 seconds)
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Western Washington U. Hybrid Club - #23 Viking 23 (Hybrid - biodiesel electric)
2nd Place in Category 1st Place - Low Climate Change Emissions (85% reduction)* 9th Place - Fuel Economy (51 MPG) 2nd Place - Hill Climb (10 seconds) 8th Place - Autocross (45 seconds) 5th Place - Acceleration (11 seconds) |
Western Washington U. Hybrid Club - #32 Viking 32 (Compressed Natural Gas)
2nd Place in Category 12th Place - Low Climate Change Emissions (50% INCREASE)* 630 12th Place - Fuel Economy (15 MPG) 1st Place - Hill Climb (9 seconds) 2nd Place - Autocross (40 seconds) 1st Place - Acceleration (9 seconds) |
CATEGORY: PROTOTYPE VEHICLES - INDEPENDENT TEAMS
Valence - #36 - Saphion (Plug-in hybrid - gasoline-electric (Valence Lithium-ion batteries)
1st Place in Category 5th Place - Low Climate Change Emissions (64% reduction)* 153 6th Place - Fuel Economy (74 MPG) 6th Place - Autocross (43 seconds) Innovative Technology Award
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Vogelbilt - #12 - Vogelbilt Vehicle (Biodiesel in Ford 250 pick-up)
2nd Place in Category Fuel Economy and Climate Change data not available 3rd Place - Hill Climb (10 seconds) 4th Place - Autocross (42 seconds) 2nd Place - Acceleration (9 seconds)
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BATTERY ELECTRIC VEHICLES (BEV)
Student Teams
Methacton Electric Car Club - #45 - The Lorax
1st Place in Category 6th Place - Low Climate Change Emissions (63% reduction)* 2nd Place - Fuel Economy (120 MPG) 7th Place - Hill Climb (14 seconds) 7th Place - Acceleration (12 seconds) |
Burlington County Electechs - #16 - The Olympian
2nd Place in Category 8th Place - Low Climate Change Emissions (55% reduction)* 4th Place - Fuel Economy (98 MPG) 6th Place - Hill Climb (14 seconds) 5th Place - Autocross (42 seconds) 6th Place - Acceleration ( 12 seconds) |
North Haven Community School - #53 - Revolution Ride
3rd Place in Category 11th Place - Low Climate Change Emissions (0% reduction)* 11th Place - Fuel Economy (45 MPG) 6th Place - Range (21 Miles) 7th Place - Autocross (44 seconds) 12 Place - Acceleration (17 seconds) |
RENEWABILITY AWARD - RECHARGE FROM SOLAR PANELS AT SCHOOL
SOLAR-ASSISTED ELECTRIC VEHICLES
Two-Person Student Teams
St. Mark's Electric Vehicle Club - #56 - Woodstock
1st Place in Category 9th Place - Low Climate Change Emissions (51% reduction)* 5th Place - Fuel Economy (90 MPG) 1st Place - Range (66 Miles) 8th Place - Hill Climb (17 seconds) 9th Place - Autocross (47 seconds) 2nd Place - Acceleration (14 seconds) |
RENEWABILITY AWARD - RECHARGE FROM RENEWABLY PRODUCED ELECTRICITY - GREEN TAGS
One-person Student Teams
Cato-Meridian HS Technology Team - #92 - Sunpacer
1st Place in Category 3rd Place - Low Climate Change Emissions (66% reduction)* 141 1st Place - Fuel Economy (132 MPG) 5th Place - Range (26 Miles) 8th Place - Hill Climb (19 seconds) 11th Place - Acceleration (16 seconds) 1st Place - Most solar miles traveled (7.6 miles)
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IHS Solar Car Team - #7 - Zodiac
2nd Place in Category 7th Place - Low Climate Change Emissions (59% reduction)* 3rd Place - Fuel Economy (108 MPG) 4th Place - Range (34 Miles) 10th Place - Hill Climb (22 seconds) 10th Place - Acceleration (15 seconds) 3rd Place - Most solar miles traveled (2.4 miles)
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* Climate Change Emissions: % reduction compared to a conventional 27 MPG gasoline vehicle which emits 420 grams C02/mile. Electricity based on emissions from Northeast power plants (California emissions would be less, national average would be more)