Asia Shell Eco-marathon event being held in Manila

Shell Pakistan would provide global platform to nine teams of various engineering to represent the country in Asia Shell Eco-marathon event being held in Manila in 2016. The event provides an opportunity to the students from universities across the world to design, build and race the most energy efficient cars.
Pakistan Navy Engineering College (PNEC-NUST) and Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Science (PIEAS) students have also designed 50cc cars and PIEAS demonstrated their vehicles on Monday. The highest rank achieved by a Pakistani team was 3rd by team Econova from PIEAS. The same team (with a different composition of members) will be participating once again in 2016.
This year Shell Pakistan held a country-wide competition "run for your money" that enabled each of the nine student teams to showcase their concepts to a panel of technical advisors from our original equipment manufacturers (OEM) partners and academia. Shell rewarded the top three teams with Rs 2.25 million in prize money to finance the production of their vehicles in addition to technical guidance on each of their designs.
Of the nine teams participating in the Shell Eco-marathon 2016, three are from Pakistan Navy Engineering College (PNEC-NUST), two from COMSATS Institute of IT, two from Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology (GIKI) and two from PIEAS.
The event had already been taken place in Asia, America and Europe. Every year students gather for the four-day event to showcase, test and drive their cars on streets. The Asia edition of Shell Eco-marathon is into its seventh year in 2016 and will be held in the heart of the vibrant city of Manila, Philippines. About 140 student teams from 18 countries across Asia, Australia and the Middle East registered in two different vehicle categories - Prototype (aimed to build the most aerodynamic and fuel-efficient vehicle possible) and Urban Concept (aimed to build fuel - economy vehicles that resemble today's cars).
This is a forum to showcase Pakistani talent from the best engineering universities by putting them up against the top 100 student teams competing from across the globe (Asia, GCC and Australia). Pakistan started participating in the Shell Eco-Marathon in the year 2009 at the event held at Berlin and was the first South Asian participant in the four-day event.
Now in its third year in Manila, the Shell powering progress together forum is a one-day event that is organised around 300 thought leaders, young talents and representatives around Asia Pacific. Building on a discussion on the energy-water-food stress nexus in 2014, and resilience in an urbanising world in 2015, this year's forum will focus on "collaboration for a Sustainable Future." PPT 2016 will showcase and celebrate concrete examples of multi-sector collaborative action towards a more resilient and sustainable future.