It was just two years ago when a couple of young highly motivated students at the Technical University of Munich in Germany decided to found the TUfast Eco team and build a car for Shell Eco-marathon Europe.

Building race cars for the Formula Student has already become a tradition at our university, but designing a new prototype for an eco-challenge from scratch with completely different requirements was another situation altogether.  It was exactly this challenge that made it so interesting for us, because the TUfast Eco project presented us with the perfect opportunity to apply our knowledge from lectures immediately. A lot of research and hard work went into our first prototype before we were able to