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Welcome to the website of the Belgian Vehicle Design Summit Team. We're one of the 30 teams that are part of the global Vehicle Design Summit project. This projects aims at creating and building an environment friendly car and eventually bringing to the market. Every university team is responsible for one or two sub systems of the vehicle, called 'Vision 200'.

The Belgian team, located in GROUP T Leuven, is responsibnle for the vehicle frame and the electrical motor. Both sub teams work together with partner universities elsewhere. The vehicle frame team cooperates with Tsinghua University, Bejing, the electrical motor team with the Berner Fachhochschule Biel, Switserland.

The mission of the Vehicle Design Summit is to create a meta-team of the world’s best universities to solve global problems in the public domain, and to initiate this endeavor by designing and building a 200 MPGe 5-person vehicle with 95% reduction in life cycle costs. The design of this hyper-efficient vehicle will be eventually be placed into public domain and 40 copies of this car will be built for crash, but the most important outcome of this work is a robust infrastructure for global collaboration now and into the future.

The question remains: why do we have our own website, as there's also an official website? The Belgian VDS wants to reach a lot of people. We want to provide a platform to partners (sponsors), co-students and everyone who is interested or involved in the project, both nationally and internationally. This website keeps everyone updated in the progress of our team and the complete project. You can follow up the progress by visiting the weblog. This week the site will be updated to the current project status.

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