{"id":477519,"date":"2010-03-26T18:13:29","date_gmt":"2010-03-26T22:13:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/discoblog\/?p=7847"},"modified":"2010-03-26T18:13:29","modified_gmt":"2010-03-26T22:13:29","slug":"shell-eco-marathon-follow-the-vehicle-mileage-competition-here-all-weekend-discoblog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/477519","title":{"rendered":"Shell Eco-Marathon: Follow the Vehicle Mileage Competition Here All Weekend | Discoblog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Greetings from sunny Houston. The hotels are overrun with basketball fans donning the colors of Duke, Baylor, and other colleges playing basketball here tonight. But the NCAA tournament isn&#8217;t the competition that brought DISCOVER deep in the heart of Texas.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re here for the <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.shell.com\/home\/content\/ecomarathon\/americas\/\">Shell Eco-marathon Americas<\/a>. All weekend long in downtown Houston, students from 29 universities and 9 high schools will he going head-to-head with their prototype ultra-high mileage vehicles. Most of the 50 vehicles are powered by combustion engines, but a smattering of vehicles running on ethanol, hydrogen fuel cells, solar, and petroleum gas have come down to challenge the traditional engine.<\/p>\n<p>Check Discoblog over the weekend, as we&#8217;ll be continually updating on the wild cars and their brilliant young designers. Official competition runs Saturday and Sunday. However, given that\u00a0winners of past eco-marathons have reached efficiencies in the thousands of miles per gallon, these vehicles might just keep on going.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/DiscoverMag\/~4\/oqI1cjQVZLc\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greetings from sunny Houston. The hotels are overrun with basketball fans donning the colors of Duke, Baylor, and other colleges playing basketball here tonight. But the NCAA tournament isn&#8217;t the competition that brought DISCOVER deep in the heart of Texas. We&#8217;re here for the Shell Eco-marathon Americas. All weekend long in downtown Houston, students from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":641,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-477519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/641"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}