Students from Thailand emerged with the best run at Shell Eco-marathon Asia 2012 with a mileage of 2,903 km/l – the equivalent of driving from Kuala Lumpur to Hanoi.
Acknowledging the outstanding performance of this year’s student teams in an award ceremony, Shell Malaysia Country Chair Iain Lo said, “The level of energy and team spirit exuded in the pit and on the track has been truly amazing. It has shown that with team work, impressive results can be achieved. One can’t help but be optimistic that achieving smarter mobility is not too distant a dream, when our future is already thinking of solutions today.”
Team Luk Jao Mae Khlong Prapa of Dhurakij Pubdit University Thailand, which achieved the highest mileage of this year’s event, competed in the Prototype category running on Ethanol E100 and improved on its own 2011 mileage record of 2,213.4 km/l by more than 30 percent...