About Make the Future California

Make the Future California is composed of three events, at the heart of which is the Shell Eco-marathon Americas.

Visitors to the experience on the track on the final day of Shell Make the Future at Sonoma Raceway, Sunday, April 22, 2018 in Sonoma, Calif. (Alison Yin/AP Images for Shell)

About the event

Shell launched the #makethefuture campaign as part of our ambition to support a brighter energy future by helping to find solutions for more and cleaner energy. By working together with governments, businesses, academic institutions and the community, we can help to transform lives and bring more and cleaner energy to communities around the world.

Make the Future California took place at Sonoma Raceway, April 19-22, 2018. It composed of two events:

Make the Future Festival. The Festival brings bright energy ideas together and provides a platform for conversation and collaboration; inviting everyone to experience, test, discuss and contribute ideas. It enables our partners to inspire audiences of young people to think differently about their future and that of the world.
Shell Eco-marathon Americas. The Shell Eco-marathon brings together young engineers to design, build and drive ultra-efficient vehicles. There are two competitions:
- Shell Eco-marathon Mileage Challenge - where students compete to see whose vehicle design can go the farthest on the least amount of energy.
- Shell Eco-marathon Drivers' World Championship Regional Final - marrying energy efficiency with speed in a race to be crowned the regional champion and secure a place in the Drivers' World Championship Grand Final in London.

Meanwhile, Shell Powering Progress Together took place in San Francisco on 18 April 2018. Powering Progress Together convenes leaders from across California for an action-oriented day of dialogue focused on accelerating the energy transition. While acknowledging that the energy transition is well underway in California, the conversation in San Francisco focused on the need for continued creativity, collaboration, solution-oriented policy and investment across all sectors.

Racing to the future

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Description:

Thank you and goodbye, Detroit! Shell Eco-marathon Americas 2017 was hosted for the third time at #makethefuture festival in Detroit, MI, USA. Over 1000 students from across the Americas convened with their self-constructed vehicles to see which team could go the furthest distance on the least amount of fuel. See the highlights and find out more about how these students are helping to address the global energy challenge here: www.shell.com/semamericas

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STUDENT: It's been a real build up to this point.

STUDENT: This year is actually the first year we are running the new red body that you see behind us.

STUDENT: We feel lots of pride to be a part of this

STUDENT: First time here, really huge learning experience and so far it's been amazing.

STUDENT: You spend so much time working and everything

STUDENT: Even just the patience goes along with those things.

STUDENT: Why did we bring the molds to make our own carbon things?

STUDENT: All of us, we have a special abilities. Together, we make something great just like Power Rangers and the Megazord

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CHAD HOLIDAY, CHAIRMAN, ROYAL DUTCH SHELL: I'll guarantee there are people in this room right now that are part of this, they're going to be a future Henry Ford. He said when a group comes together to do something, that's the beginning. When you stay together, that's progress. And when you actually work together, that's success.

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STUDENT: It feels good to get that first run down this morning.

STUDENT: There's a few rough spots but I think it I think it felt pretty good

STUDENT: We are so excited our first run. I think we may be used eight milliliters of our fuel.

STUDENT: We were aiming for 100, cause last year we got 98.1 so 106 would make me pretty happy.

STUDENT: Finally, third time's the charm. We got out there and got full run in. it was running good now we just got a lap-run in. So now we just fine tune it and get it up there.

STUDENT: The last run went a lot better. This time I was really able to cut the engine a lot more.

STUDENT: In the beginning it, he was a little bit nervous because there's a lot of vehicles on the track but in the end, he was more confident, he did great, and he did a good job.

[Applause]