UBCST’s first entry into the Shell Eco-marathon: Urban Concept class achieves 163.5 mpg!  A big thanks to Shell for organizing the event and also to our sponsors and supporters for making it all possible.

..and we are off!

This year’s competition will be held at Discovery Green Park in Houston, Texas from March 26-29.  This will be UBCST’s first entry into the Shell Eco-Marathon: Urban Concept Challenge.
Wish us luck!

Big thanks to our newest sponsor, Knighthill Automotive Ltd,  for painting the vehicle!  With their attention to detail and professional touch, the car is striking..

Check out the blog for pictures!

Check out our blog for updates on the progress of the new vehicle.

(blog link at top right corner of page)

OneOak Design has become an official sponsor for the UBC Supermileage Team.  OneOak Design has graciously donated much needed equipment to the team.

About OneOak Design:

“OneOak Design, Inc. is a product design and engineering company based in Delta, BC. Specializing in electronic product development, OneOak Design provides hardware development services in Industrial Design, Electrical Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering. For more information about OneOak Design, visit www.oneoakdesign.com.”

After 3 days of spirited competition, the UBC Supermileage team was able to place 4th in our inaugural year at the Shell Eco-Marathon in Fontana, California with a mileage of 1864.9 mpg.

A thank you to Shell for hosting a successful event, and to UBC and our sponsors for their continued support.

Please note that effective today, we will be transitioning from our old mech.ubc.ca email address to a brand new supermileage.ca email system. The team email address is now as follows:

Please update all of your address books! Thanks.

That’s right! Our 2006 entry to the annual SAE Supermileage competition in Michigan has made it into the TIME Best Inventions 2006. From TIME:

Here’s a secret: you don’t really need funky alternative fuels or an electric motor to trim your energy consumption on the road. Sometimes all it takes is a little ingenuity. A team of Canadian engineering students won the annual Supermileage race in Michigan with its 80-lb. carbon-fiber Mark V, which can travel 3,145 miles on a single gallon of gas. That’s thanks to details like a curved underbody, an ultra-fuel-efficient 54-cc engine and a driver who understands why the turtle beat the hare. The catch? You have to drive lying down, and the windows don’t open.

Read more at: http://www.time.com/time/2006/techguide/bestinventions/inventions/transportation5.html. Congratulations to the team, and we wish to thank the faculty at UBC and all of our sponsors who made this possible.

Welcome to the new website of the UBC Supermileage Team. After a successful showing at the 2006 SAE and Japanese Supermileage competitions, the team is working on the design and fabrication of the 2007 Supermileage vehicle. Please feel free to have a look around and contact us if you have any questions.

In other news, our email contact is now up and running again. If you’ve sent us an email in the last few weeks and haven’t heard from the team, please resend your email. Thanks!