GENERATION EXCELLENT

摘要

For Taliya Carter, Joshua Pigford, and Derrick Bell, dedicating their nights and weekends to making the EVX 818 was about more than building a biodiesel race car-they wanted to prove just what students from West Philadelphia are capable of. "A lot of people think that in the area we grow up in, you won't get good opportunities," Pigford says. "But we do. You just have to take advantage of them." Their school principal, Simon Hauger, raced the final product, a Subaru WRX frame mashed up with a Volkswagen Jetta engine, at the 2014 Green Grand Prix in Watkins Glen, New York, and won. The vehicle goes up to 150 mph, gets 100 mpg, and runs on fuel the students refined from grease. Doughnut grease, that is-donated by Federal Donuts.