Cal State L.A. News

Left to Right… Student Abraham Vargas, outreach coordinator for Cal State L.A.’s EcoCAR 2 team, Electro-Mechanical Technician Chris Reid, team leader, and student Justin Bower, electrical team co-lead

UPDATE 9/28: CSULA team to debut its EcoCAR 2 vehicle at the Alt CAR Expo Sept. 28-29

After a year of hard work in the three-year competition, Cal State L.A.’s (CSULA) EcoCAR 2 team of engineering students has received its 2013 Chevrolet Malibu, and will now get under the hood to start work converting it into a plug-in hybrid vehicle.

EcoCAR 2: Plugging into the Future, sponsored by General Motors (GM) and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), challenges 15 teams of engineering students in North America to design and build advanced vehicles that demonstrate cutting-edge automotive technologies. More…