On Track to Succeed With Efficient “Girl Power”
This year’s Shell Eco-marathon Asia saw the first and only all-female team vying for the top prize. The PLM Alpha 2 team is from Pusat Latihan Mekanik (Mechanical Training Center) in the small country of Brunei, located on the island of Borneo in southeast Asia. Their F1-inspired prototype vehicle runs on battery-electric-power. (Related: “In Manila, Students Race for Fuel Efficiency at Shell Eco-marathon Asia 2014.”)
“ We want to show the girl power in the race,” said Nurul Hasanah, 18, the youngest of the seven-girl team, “that we can also do what male students can do in terms of innovation, design and building a fuel-efficient vehicle.”
Hasanah maintains that PLM Alpha 2’s yellow light-weight, “most advanced electric vehicle design and technology
