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Seven cars. Eighteen years. One record.
Every generation is built by a new team of students in one year. Some seasons end on the podium. Some end in the pit lane. Both are in here.
Fuel Fighter 7
Built for the 2025 season on a new steel space frame chosen for reliability and repairability after three seasons of carbon chassis. It carries the Urban Concept battery electric entry and the autonomous stack.
Poland 2025 gave us a finished car and no valid efficiency run. Team 2026 went back and posted 137 km/kWh, tenth in Europe and our first classified result since 2019.
- Class
- Urban Concept, battery electric
- Chassis
- Steel space frame, composite body
- Autonomy
- Camera + LiDAR perception, in house software
- Electronics
- Custom motor controller, BMS and telemetry
- Latest result
- 137 km/kWh, 10th place, SEM Poland 2026
- Next
- Shell Eco-marathon, Poland, June 2027
Every generation, honestly.
Scroll sideways. Orange cards are the seasons that made the history books. The rest made the engineers.
First Fuel Fighter
Thirteen students build NTNU's first Shell Eco-marathon car. Second overall, plus the communication and road safety awards.
World record
An 80 kg hydrogen fuel cell car wins the Urban Concept class at 1246 km per litre equivalent, a world record, with the lowest CO2 emissions in the field.
Going electric
Fuel Fighter 2 swaps the fuel cell for batteries. Built in one year, fifth in class, and the start of a decade of battery electric development.
Podium and design award
Third in Urban Concept battery electric, plus the design and communication awards. Solar panels join the package.
Two cars, one team
The team enters both a hydrogen Urban Concept car and a Prototype, with roughly ten thousand development hours behind them.
Fuel Fighter 4
A new car built in five months. No valid run in France, but a platform that comes back stronger the next year.
Second in Europe
Fuel Fighter 4 returns and takes second place in Urban Concept battery electric.
Best efficiency run
Fuel Fighter 5, a 73 kg carbon car, posts 181 km/kWh, fifth place and the Vehicle Design Award. Still the number to beat.
Autonomous podium
Fuel Fighter 6, 66 kg of carbon and flax fibre, takes third in the Autonomous Challenge on the first attempt. No valid efficiency run.
Nogaro
Autonomous with camera and LiDAR, and the only team building motor controllers on site. No valid run.
Fuel Fighter 7
A new steel space frame chassis built for reliability. A finished car in Poland, but no valid efficiency run.
Back on the results list
Team 2026 takes Fuel Fighter 7 back to Poland and finishes tenth in Europe at 137 km/kWh.
Fuel Fighter 8 starts with you.
Every car on this page was built by students who had never built one before. The next one is being planned now.