DENSO Once Again Helping EcoCAR Team Succeed
UT’s EcoCAR team has once again gotten support from a familiar partner: DENSO has provided the team with $50,000.
The aid from the Blount County–based business will help the team purchase a truck to transport their competition car.
As part of the first year of the current round of competition, that car—a 2016 Chevrolet Camaro—has been modified to the point that it is not currently street legal, making the transport vehicle necessary.
“Teams are prohibited from driving the vehicle on public highways until a year from now,” said Butch Irick, the team’s faculty advisor and a research assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Biomedical Engineering. “The truck will take the car to test facilities, outreach events, and competition, so it’s absolutely vital to us.”