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UCSD engineering students weigh in on the future of fuel


By: Wolf Hibbeler
UCSD’s engineering students agree that state of energy is in flux. But the future is unclear: what renewable source can help solve our dependency on fossil fuels? UCSD’s Society of Automobile Engineers president Kanchana Gunasekera believes electric cars are the future. “Hybrids are the stepping stone,” he said.
SAE member Ryan Revilla has similar views. “Hybrids are going to be the transition, because we lack infrastructure for any other type of energy. We don’t have infrastructure for electric-only, we don’t have stations for hydrogen energy. Hybrids will give a chance for someone to build an infrastructure in the meantime. But it is a bit a ways in the future.”
To Vice President Ritwik Ghosh, one thing is clear. “If we want to solve the problems we have right now, we can’t look to gasoline powered cars.”





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