Vietnam won the first prize of Asian fuel-saving vehicle invention

With 185km, Lac Hong University's car only consumes one liter of ethanol bio-fuel, protecting the throne at the Asian intellectual playground.

On the afternoon of March 6, Mr. Lam Thanh Hien - Deputy Principal of Lac Hong University (Dong Nai) - said LH-Gold Energy 's team won the first prize of the 7th Asia Fuel-saving Vehicle Competition. (Shell Eco Marthon Asia) urban model genre, has just ended in Manila, Philippines.

The LH-Gold Energi team will be present at the upcoming UK fuel economy competition.(Photo: Le Long).

After 5 stages, LH-Gold Energi is the team that runs the longest route, 185km, but only costs one liter of Ethanol bio-gasoline. Indonesia's Cikal Ethanol team finished second with 183km per liter.

In the same category, at the 2015 competition, LH-Gold Energi also won the first prize with a performance of 164.4km / liter of Ethanol E100 gasoline.

"This is a very difficult and dramatic victory, because this year's exam has many new points and is harder than all previous competitions. The multi-position race has changed, the way to stop and stop requires both vehicles and people The controller must be highly skilled, skilled to be able to achieve the best route and spend the least amount of time, " said Le Phuong Long, a member of the exam team.

Members of the Vietnamese team at the competition.(Photo: Le Long).

The Shell Eco-marathon was launched in 1985 in France and was first held in Asia in 2010, in Malaysia. This year, the competition took place from March 3 to 6 with more than 100 participating teams from Asia, the Middle East and Africa.

Vietnam has 7 universities and colleges with 11 teams, but only 6 teams have passed the technical round. In addition to the first prize of Lac Hong University, the Vietnamese team also received the third prize of the team from Ho Chi Minh City University of Technical Education.

With this victory, LH-Gold Energy team will be one of the representative teams for Asia to attend the world fuel economy car competition in the UK in the near future.