Vehicle design summit

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The Vehicle Design Summit is an initiative to develop an international design team capable of solving global problems in the public domain.

Phase 1 (VDS 1.0)
To jump-start this effort, VDS 1 took place between June 13 and August 13, 2006 at MIT when a group of 55 student engineers from all around the world came together to develop a fleet of super-efficient vehicles. During the eight-week period, four vehicles designed and built around a set of four propulsion technologies; hydrogen, biofuel, human-power, and electricity. Each core technology was selected to enable discussion about a more general topic, specifically polyculture, grid vs. distributed energy generation, biological hydrogen production, and transportation in developing countries.[1]

Phase 2 (VDS 2.0)
The mission statement of the current phase 2 of the project states that it "will design, build and bring to market the VDS Vision 200, a hyper-efficient 4-6 passenger vehicle." They plan to have a limited production and field tests by August 2008 with a goal to market it in India by the end of 2009.[2]