Diesel Power Magazine

George Voll makes some final adjustments before the economy run begins.

BITW Technologies Vincitore' 1000 was featured in Diesel Power magazine, again! They wrote a story on the Progressive Insurance Automotive X-Prize competition and how the VK was the best fit to achieve the goals of the competition. The powertrain is approaching 30 K miles and keeps running strong in all types of terrains and temperatures! Diesel starts easier than E-85 below 60 degrees, which was very evident during the Shakedown part of the competition.

Prepping for Shakedown Economy run, April 2010.

The team was at Chelsea Proving Grounds in October to do coast down testing and then to Auburn Hills to get an emissions test. Testing went very well and we were amazed at how low the CO was. The car went over a mile in the coastdown, and did very well for a production chassis. We will have more about that one later!