HOUSTON -- More than 500 students making up 44 teams from North and South America competed over the weekend in the 2009 Shell Eco-marathon Americas, a challenge for students to design, build and test ...

SONOMA COUNTY, Cailf. (KGO) -- Sonoma Raceway is gearing up for what may be the greenest event in motorsports: the Shell Eco-Marathon. At a race that's free for both spectators and competitors, 99 ...

Well a student team from Laval University of Quebec, Canada made this a reality at the 2009 Shell Eco-marathon Americas where they achieved 2,757.1 miles per gallon (1,172.2 kilometers per liter). And ...

Siddarth Raja March 17, 2008 Comment Now! For the past couple of years Dutch oil-giant Shell has played host to the ‘Eco-Marathon’ challenge, a competition where teams have to build the most fuel ...

The racers' vehicles were side by side, moving past the Joe Louis fist toward the Renaissance Center before a sharp left turn onto Woodward Avenue. This race, however, wasn't about speed, but about ...

Since 1985, the Shell Eco Marathon has pitched teams of students against each other in an attempt to see who can travel the furthest using the energy from one liter of fuel (or its equivalent). Teams ...

Most gearheads interested in the discipline called motorsport know Shell has been involved with the Le Mans 24 Hours Race since the early 1920s, but their interest in the competition took different ...

HOUSTON, March 13 /PRNewswire/ -- After more than 20 successful years in Europe and the United Kingdom, the world-renowned Shell Eco-marathon(TM) is coming to the United States. The Shell Eco-marathon ...

The Shell Eco-Marathon brings wild-looking cars to the streets of Detroit in a bid for a more fuel-sipping automotive future. Jon Wong Former editor for CNET Cars Jon Wong was a reviews editor for ...