Clean, Quiet Snowmobiles

A group of USU engineering students has created a zero-emissions electric snowmobile set to compete at the Society of Automotive Engineers Clean Snowmobile Challenge in March in Michigan. The challenge arose from interest in encouraging the use of cleaner, quieter snowmobiles in public lands. The National Science Foundation gave the USU team a $2,000 grant to assist with research costs to create the snowmobile. NSF operates several research stations in remote, pristine locations in Antarctica and the Artic. Cleaner snowmobiles may benefit science in these places, where snowmobile emissions can interfere with data gathered on global atmospheric constituents.

For more information, contact USU mechanical and aerospace engineering professor Byard Wood [byard.wood@usu.edu], 435-797-2868.