The EcoGreen Gas Challenge: a race to promote the energies of tomorrow

The Loire’s EcoGreen Gas Challenge is an innovative event whose goal is to promote green gas for low-carbon mobility. The first edition is being organised with the support of GRTgaz, GRDF and the Pays de la Loire region. It will take place 30 km from Nantes on 18 and 19 May 2022. Fifteen teams of French and European students will be put through their paces on the Fay-de-Bretagne racetrack. Their challenge is to build and drive a vehicle over 20 km at an average speed of 25 km per hour using a minimum quantity of gas fuel (biomethane, renewable and low-carbon hydrogen).

GRTgaz, as ever, has an eye on achieving the best possible energy transition and carbon neutrality. It is counting on the challenge to promote renewable gases and low-carbon hydrogen. This is an effective, sustainable way of decarbonising transport, as seen in the use of NGV in public mobility for over 20 years. The quest for green, sustainable energy has led to a rapid expansion in the development of gas mobility over the past three years, particularly in 2020. The main reason for this is the growing number of heavy vehicles running on NGV or BioNGV.

>> Statement by Jean Terrier, GRTgaz Head of Mobility, on the development of gas mobility (PDF)

This challenge also supports educational projects that let high-school and university students play an active role in their education. The students' creativity is a central feature of this transport decarbonisation challenge.