UAE Students Design Car 'Eco-Dubai 1' that Travels 1,000 km on 1 Liter Fuel

Over the past few years, ecofriendly cars are becoming common, with more and more people opting for an environmental friendly vehicle, thereby hampering the sale of luxury cars.

With the aim of developing a local eco-car industry, a team of engineering students from Higher Colleges of Technology Dubai Men's College, UAE, has designed a car that can potentially travel up to 1,000 km with just one liter of fuel, reports IANS.

The newly-designed car is named 'Eco-Dubai 1'. The lightweight vehicle is currently in the last stage of its completion and will be ready for testing within two weeks. The testing will be done at Shell's Eco Marathon that will be held July 4 and 5 in Kuala Lampur. The competition is based on designing a car that can travel the farthest on just one liter of fuel, and includes other similarly designed vehicles from around the world and four cars that are produced in the UAE. In order to design the car, the competition permits students to use either electricity, solar or hybrid technologies.

The modest vehicle is just a meter wide, two meters long and half a meter high, weighing just 25 kgs. It took two years of hard work and dedication by the engineering students to design it.

"Petrol is not going to last forever. One day we're going to run out. So in terms of developing a local eco-car industry, it starts with us. We're the future of the UAE in this," Ahmad Khamis Al Suwaidi, one of the students behind the car, was quoted as saying in IANS.

Reports according to Dubai Chronicle state that presently, a team at the Polytech Nantes University, France, holds the record for the longest distance travelled on 1 liter. The vehicle they designed travelled up to 4,900 km with just 1 liter of petrol.