On May 17, 2010, 16 schools across North America tested vehicles on the General Motors Desert Proving Grounds at Yuma, AZ. During the past two years, each school has designed and built a powertrain of the future (fuel cell, hybrid electric, 100% electric) into each of their GM donated vehicles as part of EcoCAR: The NeXt Challenge. As part of the challenge for Year 2, the student teams only had 6 months from the time when the GM donated vehicle was delivered to the time of competition at Yuma, AZ to install their Year 1 designed powertrain. Not every team was able to bring a 100% functioning vehicle to competition. When NC State arrived on May 17, we had just started to make the electric motor drive the vehicle with full power, the diesel engine-generator had never been ran before, and controls strategies still needed to be programed for the engine-generator.
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