《文献翻译-年轻工程师竞相建造更高效更环保的汽车》.docVIP

附录A Budding engineers compete to build more efficient, greener cars. University teams take varied technological approaches in vying for the Challenge X prize. The 17 Chevrolet Equinox sport utility vehicles that pulled up to the US Department of Energy headquarters on 21 May were identically equipped when they came off the assembly line in 2005. Four years later all resemblance ended at the exterior. In the intervening time, teams of students from 17 universities had torn the guts out of their donated crossover SUVs—those built on a car frame—and installed radically new drive systems of thei