In the Battery-Electric category, thirteen teams from around the country competed.The Bolton High School Team (Bolton, CT) captured ALABC's prize for the best car using lead acid batteries. They also set a new event range record of 165 miles for a vehicle using a lead acid battery, and tied for first place in their category.

The Sungo, New Hampshire Technical Institutes' purpose-built sedan, tied for first place. NHTI is the only team that has competed every year since the NESEA Tour began in 1989.

In the USDOE Hybrid category, six student teams participated. The complexities in fuel measuring made scoring complicated and difficult. Top honors were given to several vehicles built by Lawrence Tech (MI) , the University of Tulsa (OK), Deer Valley High School (AZ), and Naugatuck Valley Community Technical College (CT).

Team New Jersey, demonstrated their cutting edge fuel cell vehicle. They also demonstrated their ability to travel the course using only renewably produced electricity and hydrogen! The vehicle captured the prize for the "Greenest Sedan," and first place in the new Renewably Fueled vehicle Category. NESEA presented a "Sustainable Transportation Award" to the State of New Jersey for its work with advanced transportation vehicles. The photo below shows the NJ Venturer and its transportable solar charging panel.

This year Team NJ designed a second fuel cell vehicle powered by a larger fuel cell. A borohydride storage unit was designed by Millenium Cell to supply the hydrogen. Construction was almost completed in less than a year too; but unfortunately, they came up about 3 weeks short. Left photo shows the stack, right photo shows the borohydride storage unit in the trunk.

The University of Maine's Solar Black Bear captured first place in the Solar-Electric vehicle category for the second year in a row.

The Ovonic Scooter, the only corporate entry in the One-Person category, took first place. This electric scooter, entered by the Ovonic Battery Company, demonstrated an amazing efficiency of the equivalent of 302 miles per gallon. Its driving range was 65 miles.