Headline Sponsors
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), through Argonne National Laboratory, provides overall competition management, team evaluation, and technical and logistical support. DOE launched its student vehicle competition program in 1989 to demonstrate and test technologies developed in laboratories.
Over the past fifteen years, General Motors (GM) has joined the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to sponsor several successful student engineering competition programs. GM donated a new 2005 Chevy Equinox crossover vehicles to each of the university teams at the end of the first year of the competitio. GM also provided each university team $10,000 in seed money and donated use of its engineering, testing and proving ground facilities for student workshops and competitions.
Other Competition Sponsors