Indonesian students have won awards for innovative urban fuel-save car design concepts at the inaugural Shell Eco-marathon Asia fuel-saving race at Sepang F1 circuit in Kuala Lumpur.

Team Keris and Team Pasoepati, both representing University of Indonesia (UI), along with another team from Sepuluh Nopember Institute of Technology (ITS) won the Combustion Grand Prize for Urban Concept car with their car, Sapu Angin, which we have written about before. The team from ITS also won the Gasoline Fuel Award while another team from Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB), Team Exia won People’s Choice Award.

“We are surprised. We didn’t think we could have won. We submitted a design that focus on simplicity; while other teams have more complicated designs,” Pasoepati manager Rizky Arif Hidayat, who is a third year engineering student at UI, told The Jakarta Post on Saturday.

The award recognizes innovative choice of material and technical feasibility design research in terms of, among others, ergonomics, and aesthetics.

The Indonesian teams took home a cash prize of US$200 (Rp 1.8 million) each from Autodesk Inc, a US-based software company – official sponsor of the Shell Eco-marathon Asia race.

The three teams are among nine teams representing Indonesia at the fuel-save racing, competing against more than 70 other teams from Asian countries.

Here is the full list of winners for the Shell Eco Marathon Asia 2010:

SHELL ECO-MARATHON ASIA 2010
Final Trophies, Prizes and Awards

Prototype

Combustion Grand Prize
1 Thailand Kong Thabbok Upatham Changkol Kho So Tho Bo School
2 Japan Hyogo Prefectural Tajima Technical Institute
3 China Tongji University

Fuel Cell Grand Prize
1 Malaysia Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
2 Singapore Ngee Ann Polytechnic

Solar Grand Prize
1 Singapore Nanyang Technological University

Gasoline Fuel Award
1 Thailand Kong Thabbok Upatham Changkol Kho So Tho Bo School

Diesel Fuel Award
1 Singapore Institute of Technical Education

Alternative Gasoline Fuel Award
1 Malaysia Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia

Alternative Diesel Fuel
1 Japan Hyogo Prefectural Tajima Technical Institute

Urban Concept

Combustion Grand Prize
1 Indonesia Sepuluh Nopember Institute of Technology
2 Indonesia University of Indonesia
3 Indonesia University of Indonesia

Fuel Cell Grand Prize
1 Singapore National University of Singapore

Gasoline Fuel Award
1 Indonesia Sepuluh Nopember Institute of Technology

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