What is "hevt"

The Hybrid Electric Vehicle Team of Virginia Tech, better known as HEVT, is a nationally recognized undergraduate student design team in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Virginia Tech. HEVT was formed in 1994 to compete in the 1995 Hybrid Electric Vehicle (HEV) Challenge, one of the many competitions organized by the Argonne National Laboratory through the United States Department of Energy. HEVT has been involved in the Department of Energy Advanced Vehicle Technology Competitions (AVTCs) ever since. HEVT attributes a significant amount of its success to their Advisor, Professor Doug Nelson in Mechanical Engineering. Dr. Nelson has received the Outstanding Faculty Advisor award at competition 3 times. He has greatly aided the education of students at Virginia Tech and helped the team succeed at competition The overall highlights of past competitions are as follows:

Competition

Overall Place

'95 HEV Challenge

Fifth

'96 FutureCar Challenge

First

'97 FutureCar Challenge

Second

'98 FutureCar Challenge

First (tied with Wisconsin)

'99 FutureCar Challenge

Second

'00 FutureTruck Challenge

Third

'05 ChallengeX

Fourth

'06 ChallengeX

First

'07 ChallengeX

Third

'09 EcoCAR

Sixth

'10 EcoCAR

Second

'11 EcoCAR

First

'12 EcoCAR 2

Fourth

'13 EcoCAR 2

Sixth

'14 EcoCAR 3

Second