Pit stop in pictures

by Colin Smith

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Rear view of one of the RAC Future Car Challenge vehicles

Low emission vehicles all converged on Imperial College London– the official end point - as part of one the UK’s premiere car challenges.

Imperial technical team welcome drivers to ImperialStig from Top Gear welcomes driversEmission monitors developed by Imperial researchers from the Centre for Transport StudiesSealed fuel tanks to ensure fair competitionWinner of Best Prototype AwardWinner of Most Energy Efficient C-class AwardConverted Morgan E-type electric vehicle

See the low emissions entrants, the winners, and the Imperial team involved in this year’s event in the slideshow above.

Low emission vehicles all converged on Imperial College London– the official end point - as part of one the UK’s premiere car challenges, which happened this month.

Researchers at Imperial donated their expertise and time for the Royal Automobile Club’s Annual Future Car Challenge (FCC). The aim of Challenge is see which low emission vehicle can use the least amount of energy on a 63 mile route from Madeira Drive, Brighton, to Imperial, and onwards to London’s Regent Street.

The Royal Automobile Club, the proprietors of the world's longest running motoring event - the London to Brighton Veteran Car Run - established the FCC to actively promote new low-energy technology and echo the pioneering start of motoring in 1896.

This year, the Imperial team carried out a technical analysis on each vehicle to determine the winner. The analysis took place at Imperial’s Prince’s Gardens.

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