At a time where technologies allow you to easily cross boundaries and where consumption becomes a necessity of living, mobility is still an important part of everyday life. It still acts as a social interaction factor and is essential to our society, especially when it comes down to the world of business. Nowadays, everyone's mobility relies mostly on gasoline as it is essentially used for transportation, whether it is by plane or by car. In fact, 98% of the energy demand is provided by gasoline. Unfortunately, the growth of the needs for mobility and therefore the use of gasoline increase the emission of greenhouse gases in the environment. Moreover, the request in the transportation domain doesn't cease growing, whereas the world's oil reserves are decreasing at a fast speed. We are thus confronted with a dilemma: should we find and use a new form of energy, or should we find a way to optimize the output of the energy we have?

Thus, while designing and building vehicles able to reach performances of more than 3000 km/L, the participants of the Éco-marathon Shell show their knowledge and their ingenuity in the prospect of optimizing the energetic efficiencies of tomorrow's vehicles. The latter should support the safeguarding of the environment as well as of our energy supply.