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NIU Clean Snowmobile Team works toward being green

Did you know Trivia - The NIU Clean Snowmobile Team is doing its part to help the environment.

The team was named the “Rookie of the Year” at the SAE Clean Snowmobile Challenge in Houghton, Mich., on March 10-15.

Treasurer Matt Davis said the challenge is for students to modify a snowmobile for better exhaust and noise emissions, while improving its performance characteristics. The long-term goal is to make snowmobiling cleaner for the environment.

For this year’s competition, the team had to convert their current snowmobile to use E85 ethanol.

“Basically, we put a 2007 engine into our old sled and did a lot of mechanical engineering stuff and converted it to E85,” Davis said.
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Friday 25 April, 2008 09:09 AM

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