Racing Green Endurance (RGE) was a student-led project at

Imperial College London Imperial College London (legally Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine) is a public research university in London, United Kingdom. Its history began with Prince Albert, consort of Queen Victoria, who developed his vision for a cu ...

to demonstrate the potential of

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cars. The team drove 26,000 km down the

Pan-American Highway The Pan-American Highway (french: (Auto)route panaméricaine/transaméricaine; pt, Rodovia/Auto-estrada Pan-americana; es, Autopista/Carretera/Ruta Panamericana) is a network of roads stretching across the Americas and measuring about in to ...

starting from north Alaska in July 2010, this was filmed by the documentary maker Claudio Von Planta. Racing Green Endurance was born as a spin-off from Imperial Racing Green in late 2008. Imperial Racing Green is an undergraduate teaching project to design and build fuel cell/electric hybrid racing cars, involving around 100 students from 8 departments within the university. The students are now designing and building the third generation of fuel cell powered racers.Transcript of Imperial Magazine monthly Podcast on Racing Green and Racing Green Endurance
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External links

Racing Green Endurance WebsiteRGE Facebook PageImperial College Press ArticleImperial Racing Green Website

References

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