Building the Ultra-Efficient Drive

You’d drive a car made with a lawn chair, a dismantled drill, a 3D printer and some recycled hockey sticks, right? Benjamin Esquirol and his buddies from Saskatchewan Polytechnic sure would ... in fact they did! Welcome to Shell Eco-marathon, where young people from around the world build and drive ultra-energy-efficient vehicles towards a more sustainable future.

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[unleashingpotential-psycho]

I’m glad humans are being very creative with creating cars nowadays.

[AlexanderGBlack]

Lacrosse AND hockey are the national sports.

[julielee]

The description is about sea lions haha

[comment.highlighted]

🤣 At first glance I thought the car in the thumbnail was a cake 🎂 Edit: 02:12 I still think the car looks like a cake

[NachoTV]

Carbon fiber hockey stick car frame 😂😀...that works 👍

[Cookiefz]

1:20 >Canada
>Shows a swedish STIGA FIN-SWE table hockey board

[paolabueso]

So creative! Thank you for sharing this.

[codsam]

I was still waiting for the video to start..

[stayfrosty]

Shell: Let's promote our petrol company in a positive way by creating an encouraging competitive race by challenging people to use as little petrol as they can in a very complex car they design as a way to promote saving the Earth.

Gulf: *Let's create a Formula E team, which is fully electric and encourages people to think about a cleaner Earth, even though we are a petrol company.*

[dukethomas]

Lacross used to be our national sport. That changed a number of years ago when hockey was named our national winter sport so that lacross could be named our national summer sport. God forbid we upset those few people who play lacross. At 55 I've never seen anyone play lacross.

[markzucc]

Easy, the winner just didn’t use shell gas

[ilsunnylo]

Maglev is the future. The road drives the cars. The cars don't even drive.

[claytondefreitaslima]

Looks like one of those Hotwheels cars

[DeathSensei]

My old high school was in it for two years, the rules are really dodgey tbh. Some of the teams have some bad rumors behind them too👀

[Azelyn_z]

Wow there are Indonesia people INDONESIA IS MY COUNTRY

[connor]

That's probably a pretty affordable way to make a carbon fiber space frame

[herrmann]

Come to Formula Student.
Not sponsored by one company.
Way more action.
A lot more Events.
Much more engineering.

[kamaleiuyehara]

A place where government and fuel companies can keep a close eye on...

[kuronosan]

Well, I mean, lacrosse sticks would have worked too.

[who]

Wait, so are sea lions energy efficient?