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Regional winner of Electric Vehicle Battery Charging Challenge with Shell Recharge
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Find out which Shell Eco-marathon teams won the Pitch the Future challenges with their innovative ideas and watch the virtual awards ceremony.
Explore the CCE Collective’s solution for electric vehicle optimisation, which involves both chassis customisation and GPS.
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Title: Session #13 - CCE Collective
Duration: 1:56 minutes
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Pitch the Future is an all-new virtual competition that challenges Shell Eco-marathon teams from around the world to tackle four real-world energy challenges.
The CCE Collective Team USA outline some of their challenges and drivers behind their project to design a GPS system that takes into account temperature and population when calculating its route, and to redevelop cars with solar technology and options for energy-efficient add-ons.
Session #13 - CCE Collective Transcript
[Background music plays]
Rhythmic, upbeat music.
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Blue, grey and yellow gears turning behind inset videos of video call participants.
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Head-and-shoulders view of a young man talking to camera.
[Young man 1]
Hello.
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Hello!
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Head-and-shoulders view of a young man talking to camera.
[Young man 2]
We are
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We are
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Head-and-shoulders view of a young woman talking to camera.
[Young woman 1]
The CCE
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the CCE Collective team!
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Head-and-shoulders view of a young man talking to camera.
[Young man 2]
Collective team.
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the CCE Collective team!
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Blue, grey and yellow gears turning behind the inset videos of the six video call participants.
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Six video insets of the six video call participants waving, smiling, at the camera.
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Yellow, light-blue, grey and turquoise vertical bars slide right, across the screen. The turquoise bar fills the screen, five curved lines of pale blue dots appear as text appears. The text and dots then flip forward and disappear.
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Pitch the Future, Electric Mobility – Long Distance Travel with Electric Vehicles with Shell Recharge
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The text appears to slide down out of the middle of the screen. The waves of blue dots reappear, moving in a slow undulating manner behind the text.
[Text displays]
CCE Collective Team USA
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Head-and-shoulders view of a young man talking to camera.
[Young man 2]
From what records can tell us, we’ve been a team since the early 2000s.
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From what records can tell us, we’ve been a team since the early 2000’s.
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Head-and-shoulders view of a young man talking to camera.
[Young man 1]
We are pretty diverse in gender, ethnicity and age, as we all come from all sorts of
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We are pretty diverse in gender, ethnicity and age as we all come from all sorts of
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A still image of a classroom, groups of students seated at tables, some students standing or moving about. Each table has a laptop on it. Slow, small zoom in on the image. The sides of the image are blurred. Another still image of a classroom setting, students peering intently at an unseen something the lecturer is showing them. Slow, small zoom in on the image. The sides of the image are blurred.
[Young man 1]
Different backgrounds, cultures and generations.
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different backgrounds, cultures and generations.
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Camera moves at head height past students seated at desks as they work on an electronics project. The sides of the image are blurred.
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Blue, grey and yellow gears turning behind the inset video of a young woman talking to camera.
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A young woman talking to camera.
[Young woman 1]
So our Pitch the Future idea was to design a GPS system that takes
[Text displays]
So our Pitch the Future idea was to design a GPS system that takes
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Four images in blocks, two on either side of a vertical black bar. The blocks on the left show an area of map with Points A and B indicated, and a still image of a congested inner-city elevated freeway and offramp. The blocks on the right show a colourful map depicting global temperature zones on a graph, below it an artist’s impression of a sea of faces in a crowd.
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Asterisk, Team Pitch Video
Differences Between Routes
Generated Route versus Designed Route
[Young woman 1]
Into account the temperature and population when calculating its route.
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into account the temperature and population when calculating its route
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Four images in blocks. Clockwise, a graph showing Real World Range divided by Rated Range relative to temperature, a complicated range formula, a cork pinboard with a single note on it, reading, Luck is not a strategy. The word Not is underlined. The final image is a close-up still of a yellow sign reading Safety First.
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Asterisk, Team Pitch Video
Let’s Talk About Range due to Temperature!
Real-world range versus rated range
What is the goal?
[Young woman 1]
And we also redeveloped the cars with solar technology.
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and we also redeveloped the cars with solar technology
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Four images. On the top row are two pie charts depicting data about stopping from both Google and customised maps. A key to the charts’ legends is shown in top right-hand corner of the screen. The bottom row shows an artist’s impression of a man yelling angrily into a mobile phone in his hand. An arrow points from that image to a no-vehicle sign.
[Text displays]
Asterisk, Team Pitch Video
Charging Speed Due to Population
[Young woman 1]
And options for energy efficient add-ons.
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and options for energy-efficient add-ons.
[Graphic]
Four images in blocks, two on either side of a vertical black bar. The blocks on the left show an area of map with Points A and B indicated, and a still image of a congested inner-city elevated freeway and offramp. The blocks on the right show a colourful map depicting global temperature zones on a graph, below it an artist’s impression of a sea of faces in a crowd. The blocks on the left panel have a big red X above them. The blocks in the right panel have a big green tick above them.
[Text displays]
Asterisk, Team Pitch Video
Best option:
Generated Route versus Designed Route
A young woman talking to camera.
[Video footage]
A young man talking to camera.
[Young man 2]
Pitch the Future gave us a chance to get together and grow as a team.
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Pitch the Future gave us a chance to get together and grow as a team.
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Six video insets of the six video call participants.
[Young man 2]
It kind of makes you realise that it doesn’t matter the circumstances
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It kind of makes you realise that it doesn’t matter the circumstances
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A series of photos of ethnically diverse people on a video call, 13 in all, with widely varying backdrops from the places they’re calling from. A few participants have no profile image visible. Slow, small zoom in on the screen.
[Young man 1]
As long as you gather
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as long as you gather
[Young man 1]
A group of people who all want to accomplish a goal,
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a group of people who all want to accomplish a goal,
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The series of photos of ethnically diverse people, both men and women, from the waist up, facing camera. The side panels of the images are blurred.
[Young man 1]
You can make great opportunities for yourself.
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you can make great opportunities for yourself.
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The series of photos of ethnically diverse people, both men and women, from the waist up, facing camera, continues. The side panels of the images are blurred.
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A young woman talking to camera from her bedroom.
[Young woman 2]
If anything, the biggest challenge that we’ve had
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If anything, the biggest challenge that we’ve had
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Six video insets of the six video call participants. The young woman is speaking to camera.
[Young woman 2]
Was probably the time limit,
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was probably the time limit,
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A young woman talking to camera from her bedroom.
[Young woman 2]
Trying to get the video and the report on time has been, like, really challenging.
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trying to get the video and the report on time has been, like, really challenging.
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Light-blue, grey, turquoise and yellow horizontal bars slide upward across the screen, swallowing the video. The yellow bar fills the screen, five curved lines of pale grey dots appear as text appears word by word, growing in size till all are equal size. The text and dots then flip forward and disappear.
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What has your team learned?
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Head-and-shoulders view of a young man talking to camera from his bedroom.
[Young man 3]
One thing that we have learned from our experience with Pitch the Future
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One thing that we have learned from our experience with Pitch the Future
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Back to the screen with the six video screen insets of each of the six young people. Young Man 3 is talking directly to camera.
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Head-and-shoulders view of a young man talking to camera.
[Young man 3]
Is that even when working and learning remotely, it’s still possible to complete
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is that even when working and learning remotely it’s still possible to complete
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Head-and-shoulders view of a young man talking to camera from his bedroom.
[Young man 3]
A technical project as a team.
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a technical project as a team,
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Head-and-shoulders view of a young man talking to camera.
[Young man 3]
Essentially, creating a plan and a strategy was key to our success.
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essentially creating a plan and a strategy was key to our success.
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Young man 3 working on a small wooden crate-like construction. It has two hinged planks on opposite sides. He taps one plank, and it triggers both to fall away from the box. He grins at the camera and extends his thumb and pinky finger in the Hang Loose gesture.
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Why are you proud of your team?
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[Young woman 3]
We all really worked hard on this
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We all really worked hard on this,
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[Young woman 3]
All of us made the time to participate in this competition
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All of us made the time to participate in this competition,
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An office setting. The sides of the screen are blurred. Close-up of a young woman who looks briefly at the camera, smiling, and makes the Victory sign. A young man next to her, face off-camera, also makes the Victory sign to the camera. The camera pans down to a Perspex box housing a 3D printer which is printing an arrangement of parallel strips.
[Young woman 3]
Sometimes crazy graveyard hours
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sometimes crazy graveyard hours.
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[Young woman 3]
Not only that, we went
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Not only that, we went
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Camera zooms in for a close-up on a wooden board with a series of evenly spaced white dots on it. A multi-meter is lying in the foreground on the table. A hand is visible touching the edge of the board. Brightly coloured lights begin pulsating along two of the rows above the hand.
[Young woman 3]
Really in-depth with this challenge.
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really in depth with this challenge.
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The camera alternately zooms in and out of the scene twice.
[Young woman 3]
We were able to produce ideas that all of us are very proud of.
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We were able to produce ideas that all of us are very proud of.
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3 words you think best describe Pitch the Future?
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[Young woman 2]
Encouraging,
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Encouraging,
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Challenging
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challenging
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[Young woman 2]
And growth.
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and growth.
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Six video screen insets of each of the six young people, waving, smiling, at the camera.
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Shell jingle
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Shell Pecten centred on a background of blue, grey and yellow turning gears.
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Hashtag, MakeTheFuture
Copyright, Shell International Limited 2020
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Hashtag, ShellEcoMarathon
Copyright, Shell International Limited 2020
The CCE Collective team’s solution to optimising an all-electric drive from Rio de Janeiro to Toronto involves a significant revamp of the car itself alongside the addition of an advanced GPS system.
First, the team suggest modifying the electric car by replacing the current frame of their chosen Tesla Model S with a full carbon fibre body, which would reduce the vehicle’s weight by more than 1,000lbs
Decreasing the car’s stock weight by approximately 25 per cent allowed the team to install solar panels on the roof of the vehicle, giving the car a means of self-charging while in transit. The team also chose Michelin Energy Saver A / S tyres to provide greater mileage potential.
In terms of their navigation system, the team aims to integrate a new programme into the car’s existing onboard computer, which would compute the most electrically efficient route possible for any journey.
The programme would use local climate data in each region of the route as a primary factor for identifying optimum efficiency, since extreme temperatures can significantly impact battery performance.
