Shell Eco Marathon Asia 2018

Make the Future Singapore, is a free festival celebrating bright energy ideas and innovations from across Asia. The festival’s focus is to offer virtual reality and hands-on experiences to understand what is happening currently when we power our world as well as a glimpse of what the future of energy might look like.

Headlining the festival is Shell Eco-marathon Asia, where over 120 student teams from 18 countries across Asia Pacific and the Middle East will put their self-built energy-efficient cars to the test. One of the world’s longest-running student competitions, Shell Eco-marathon is a global programme that challenges bright student minds to design and build ultra-energy-efficient cars, and then put them to the test in competition.

This year seven Malaysian teams comprising 115 students from six universities will be competing where Team UiTM Eco - Planet who will be competing in the Hydrogen category. Last year, team UiTM Eco-Sprint from UiTM Shah Alam emerged as champions for the fourth year in a row. The limelight is on Malaysia for producing some of the youngest innovative talents in science, technology, engineering and energy.

Representing Malaysia this year are seven (7) teams from six universities: –
>Monash University Malaysia (two teams)
>Multimedia University Melaka Campus
>Universiti Malaya
>Universiti Teknologi MARA
>Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman and
>University Malaysia Pahang

SEM plays a major role in developing the students’ ability to integrate knowledge across subjects by incorporating flipped learning and encouraging them to think in a more logical and holistic way.

To participate in SEM, each team will design and test their energy efficient vehicles, therefore, exposing them to the investigative skills of science, analytical skills of mathematics and inventive skills of engineering. This is very much taking the principles of STEM which is designed to provide students with the opportunity to investigate information provided to them in order to understand it based on their own experiences; also known as contextual learning.

This is also in line with the Malaysian government’s aspiration for Transformasi National 2050 (TN50), driving Malaysia’s vision to be amongst the top 20 nations recognised for creativity and innovation.

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Below is the list of participating teams for Shell Eco Marathon Asia 2018.

TEAM NAME

SCHOOL NAME

VEHICLE NAME

VEHICLE CATEGORY

ENERGY SOURCE

UMP-Tech

University Malaysia Pahang (UMP)

EV-Tech

Prototype

Battery Electric

Eco-Voyager

University of Malaya

Evora

Prototype

Hydrogen

Grüne Welt

Multimedia University Melaka Campus

Eco-V5i

Prototype

Battery Electric

Eco-Chaser

Monash University, Malaysia

Scarlet

Prototype

Gasoline

Team Monash UC

Monash University, Malaysia

Helios-X

Urban Concept

Hydrogen

Genesis UTAR

Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman

GT-30

Prototype

Battery Electric

UiTM Eco-Planet

Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM) Shah Alam

TM18

Urban Concept

Hydrogen

2017 Shell Eco-Marathon Malaysian Team past winners
Team UiTM Eco-Sprint from UiTM Shah Alam emerged as champions for the fourth year in a row. This year, the team is passing the torch to Team UiTM Eco - Planet who will be competing in the Hydrogen category.

Shell Eco-marathon Asia will include two key competitions this year. The longest running competition is the Mileage Challenge where teams compete to travel the farthest on the least amount of fuel. In 2017, the winning team of the Asian leg was efficient enough to travel 2,289 kilometres – the distance from Singapore to Chiang Mai, Thailand – on just one litre of fuel!

The second Shell Eco-marathon competition to take place this year in Singapore is Drivers’ World Championship Asia. Introduced to the Shell Eco-marathon programme in 2016, Drivers’ World Championship challenges the best UrbanConcept teams to combine the proven energy efficiency of their car with the speed and skill of their driver, in a race to see who can cross the finish line first on the least amount of fuel.

For the first time, Shell Eco-marathon Asia will welcome entrants from Kazakhstan, which will be represented by two universities. Students from Kazakhstan National Technical University will compete with a unique ethanol-powered car designed to perform under extreme weather and temperature conditions, mirroring Kazakhstan’s diverse climate which ranges from -40C in winter to +40C in summer.

New at the festival this year will be Make the Future Singapore Lates, a special after-hours event on 9 March for those aged 18 and older. Adults have the opportunity to explore the Festival at night, participate in discussions around the energy future, while enjoying live performances and unique food and drinks offerings. Visitors can also share their views at an open-format casual forum about the future of energy.

For more information on Make the Future Singapore and to register for free priority tickets, please visit http://sg.makethefuture.shell.