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I driving 20 years down the team from Seven different faculties, ,, .. f ‘ road now sits disassembled And the skill set they bring ranges * “g A ' ‘ in a garage at the University of from engineering to marketing, , - J‘ K .5, . \Niltt‘rltm. with a healthy dose of communica I . in the past that technology tions. it? / «(I might have been kept a secret as a 'l‘hat's because the message . ‘ ' , Agar": -‘ O dedicated team of students and behind the project is just as impor- , w ~~ if: - ‘v ‘ ' faculty advisors at the University of tam as the mechanics, That's why ' 4' s I Waterluo's Alternative Fuels Team you can now watch a webcast of ’ V‘\ re-engineers a Saturn Vue donated the team in the garage on their . . *7 - A i by General Motors into a zero emis website at wvvyvuwaftcomltsp/ or ‘ xi}. -‘ sitin vehicle that will attempt to join their Facebook page for the lat- _ ‘ replicate its current performance est develggment. They're even ' - anti consumer appeal thinking hf using 'l‘witter for x 7 ’ . 5’, But what they're doing as pan of updates or you can follow them on %‘ " ‘ .r ', the lcot ar‘ lht- \‘t-Xt challenge their blog at muswgreen-garage» ' _, ‘ $ . ’\ 3. competition isn't a secret anymore blogtirg for all the latest news. ‘ I .\ fl, .. 3 . / :_, 3“ y ' ’\'o\t they want to tell the public it's all in an attempt to prove ‘ â€"' 1’ 4,, ‘ .v _ i about what they ‘re doing with the that science fiction has become scir v “'4 . “ ‘ next generation. whit h tvill Usher in ence fact with these vehicles and This is a cross-section of the Saturn Vue, featuring a hydrogen fuel cell. being worked on at UW sJBMi‘HL‘FkLi'U the electric age or whales 1 hey foster a wider understanding and men have an outreach team taking acceptance ofthcirpotential. has been working in the area of market forces tell us to do with the team captain Alt-it Koch. their ambitious plan to liavea \‘t‘hir Because the truth is. most of alternative fuels at ”W for the last capabilities," "llut what's really important for cle run on a donated hydrogen fuel these vehicles won‘t hit the road 20 years. admits this is an exciting Those capabilities exist even people to understand is that they‘re tell to lot .il schools, green living unless there is mass acceptance of time in the evolution of the intiUS' now. Want proof? look at the small qutet and when they‘re on the road shows and ltist weekend‘s kitchent-r these new vehicles as they transi- try, But that excitement is tempered carrsiled hydrogen cell the team at they have zero emissions, whith Rangers game tiori front the fossil fuel burning by the titarketplacc. UW is working at putting into their will help clean up our roads." "Now we te doing ouirt-ztth for internal combustion engine to the l'hat‘s why Fraser said films like test vehicle. That energy also has to come the st hool and for MM," stud iztit carbon clean electrit car of the “Who Killed the Electric Car?" for It could actually be housed in lrotn somewhere, so until the entire Militia. and outrun h toortliutitor future There has to be a demand get to ask the most important quesr the vehicle frame without eating up electricity grid is zero emissions. for the l l\\‘ team "it‘s not inst about from the public for the car compa (ion, Will the public buy it and how all the available space like past the car‘s total emissions Will be the tet hnology it‘s About so many mes to go green. much are they willing to pay for it? project vehicles. So there is hope in higher because of that factor. That‘s ditlereni things. Professor Hoytion A, Fraser. the “The technology was there. but finding the happy medium what the team will be evaluating " lhere is it lot oi public interest faculty advisor on the team who wasthe market there?" he said. between what people want and when they go to Yuma, Arimna this And there are two things that car what is best for the environment. May to do their testing. _ companies have figured out are Whenever you hear about a But their biggest challenge Will 3. k“ g tied to any maSs public appetite for company that says it can't meet the be to make sure they have the car ; ‘* a vehicle 7 a car‘s power and per- new emission standards, what assembled by March 1’) and drive- " ‘ & formance. Unless the public refine they‘re really saying is that they able. '? those expectations that's what the can't meet them Without sacrificing “ l'bat‘s one thing about this .’ "if" ' car companies will have to keep on the vehicle‘s performance. Fraser vehicle - its powerful oh the line." ”a“ ' delivering. said. said Fraser. "if you don't get the “’56."? i 1 But just like the first energy t‘rl' l‘hat niigbt seem like a daunting controls tight you'll be spinning G . _ _ 1 sis in the 1970s forced a rethink of task to take on, btit the work the your tires. You get the power with 9' the of new car construction, he said students are doing now will shape the efficiency" current cont ern about carbon the industry for the next 20 years. “lhat's usually the first (tint' 32:; , ~ ‘ x , ‘ emissions and the tightening oil As one of orin IT st ltools involved mt'nt you get from someone who _ ' ,1 . ‘ supply Is having the same effect iii the thret‘yt'at ttlnlp(‘llll()n. 1le drives anything with an electric \, “The response to the lithls oil could be a hub for this next tecb- power train ~ 'Wow it really feels a“ . embargo was to shrink the vehit Ie iiology, fast,"' said Koch. "And~ the reason it ' ‘ and improve energy efficiency," “if you measure the emissions feels fast is because as humans WV 1 W said Fraser, that come otit of our vehicle you'll feel torque, and electric motors Members of UW's Alternative Fuels Team taking part in the EcoCar (hal- “We had the capabilities at that get some water stipour from the have i'l lot of torque. and they (ll‘ll\ 1 lenge include Anna Sintclo. team captain Alex Koch and Eric Mallia time. It was a matter of what the fuel cell reaction." said the licot :ir ct it from rest." 1 7 4“" - l - ityw 0M1 move an my; mug. ”we, \ . -_ \e t \\ , .4 _ \\ - fog l‘ "if. Firm (iron T01 ' \’ EERS l ‘ \ 00“" ending January 3‘, 20W i‘ a. J DECORATING l I ~ Drop Hoot Decorating before the clenclirit, and purchase m”; A w l . ‘ V ‘ your point ‘iintotl or on? 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