For the second time, the PSR-STA experimental vehicle won the Drivers’ World Championship Americas!
Power Systems has sponsored the high school Experimental Vehicle team at St. Thomas Academy in suburban St. Paul, Minnesota, USA, for several years.
The team won the International Championship in London last year, competing against some of the best high school and university engineering teams in the world.
The team posted a run of 102 kilometers per kilowatt hour or the gas equivalent to around 3,250 MPG!!!
After its win on Sunday, April 22, in the Shell Eco-Marathon competition in Sonoma, CA, the team advances to London in July to compete in the Drivers’ World Championship with the best teams from Asia and Europe.
Joe Delmont is responsible for the worldwide marketing communications program at Power Systems Research. (PSR). He is an award-winning journalist and sales and marketing professional. Joe is the former Business Editor and News Editor at St. Paul (MN) Pioneer Press daily newspaper. He also has worked as a senior account executive, copywriter, and public relations professional with advertising and marketing agencies where he specialized in service industries, crisis communications and media training. For many years, Joe was a contributing editor for Dealernews magazine, and he co-founded Powersports Business magazine, the leading B2B publication serving the North American powersports industry. Joe's resume includes sales and marketing services in powersports research. His international reporting assignments have taken him from Canada to Mexico, Finland to Italy and China and Taiwan, as he wrote about powersports equipment, manufacturing and business. Joe joined the Power Systems Research team in 2012.