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Duke Electric Vehicles (DEV) is a student-led engineering team at Duke University dedicated to designing and building ultra-efficient electric vehicles. Every carbon-fiber layup, every custom motor controller, and every manufactured component is done by students.
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We set two world records in efficiency, both certified by Guinness World Records.
797 mi/kWh. That's 27,482 MPGe, over 175× the efficiency of a Tesla Model 3. Eta could circle the planet on the energy in a single gallon of gasoline.
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14,573 MPG on hydrogen. Maxwell travels 8.5 miles on less than a gram of hydrogen, dethroning a record that stood for over a decade.
The full story →Our 2026 car is a full Urban Concept vehicle with headlights, windshield, doors, and a luggage compartment, built to the same efficiency standards as our record cars.
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