Duke Electric Vehicles Team Breaks Guinness World Record for Fuel Efficiency

A team of Duke University students broke the Guinness World Record for most fuel-efficient vehicle on Saturday, July 21, 2018. Their hydrogen fuel cell car gets the equivalent of 14,573 miles per gallon, besting the previous record of 12,600 by 15.6%.

Engineers from North Carolina State University and North Carolina A&T State University judged the attempt, measuring total hydrogen consumption, total distance traveled, and total time of the run, and ensuring the car traveled at a minimum average speed of 15 mph. The efficiency score was computed based on total distance traveled divided by total hydrogen consumption.

To set the new world record, the car traveled eight and a half miles of track and used less than one gram of pure hydrogen.

The team, housed by Duke's Pratt School of Engineering (http://pratt.duke.edu), placed first in the hydrogen category at the Shell Eco-marathon Americas in Sonoma, California in April 2018.

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Learn more about the university’s lively interdisciplinary community of energy students and faculty, cultivated by the Duke University Energy Initiative: http://energy.duke.edu.

Video footage by Alex Yoshizumi & Olivia Brown