Who we are

The Team H2politO is a group of students of the Politecnico di Torino. The students background
and profiles are very diverse, everyone comes from a different discipline of engineering and
together they compose a complete Team. The disciplines range from Automotive and Mechanical to
Electronics, Aerospace, Energy, Mathematics, Computer Science, Mechatronics, Management,
Cinema and Media and Industrial Design.
The Team is based in the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering department (DIMEAS) of Turins
Politecnico , on Corso Duca degli Abruzzi 24.

Our Mission
The Team mission is to shape a new generation of engineers, leaders in their fields, who represent
the educational excellence in regard of each of their competencies.
The results of Team passion and hard work are two low-energy consumption vehicles, that could
become benchmarks for their categories:

IDRA - hydrogen powered prototype

XAM ethanol powered parallel hybrid urban concept.

The main goal is to take part and win in Shell Eco-marathon, a competition that every year involves
hundreds of students teams arriving from all over Europe. Especially we would like to spread the
Shell Eco-marathon values through ours, combining the sustainable development with a vehicle
that uses the least possible amount of energy.

Ready to be different
H2politO is a different, innovative and somehow unique project, is not just a Team but something
more: it is a new type of conceiving educational, professional and personal growth.
Team members aim at being perceived as an experimental laboratory where competences,
capabilities and potentialities of futures engineers are fostered. Students strive to become not only
solid and advanced technical experts but, equally important, down-to-earth managers having
excellent communication, leadership and teamwork skills.
Practical and hands-on experiences are doubtlessly a complementary and enriching form of
educational path. Therefore, H2politO firmly believes that learning by doing represents an absolute
advantage Team members can count on.
Team members have a real opportunity to lead their educational path by building and crafting their
own thesis. Final papers are indeed part of a cluster of thesis which combines all the technological
and organizational areas of development H2politO has envisioned and embraced.
The Team believes in hard work as the basis of future success. Students crave for continuously
improving and strive for exceeding expectations by nurturing the team spirit in order to create
those synergies able to add value to individual performances and capabilities. As a consequence,
passion and team-spirit are really the foundation of H2politO values.

Team Concept
The work at the Team and the prototype can be perceived as an business laboratory where is
required a synergy between technical knowledge and managerial skills. Therefore H2politO
allowed to develop both technical competencies strictly linked to the Prototype/Product and
managerial competences characteristics of a business team.

Excellence
The Team believes that the competition is a way to achieve excellence. The market, thus the
competition, gives them the possibility to work hard in order to challenge the competitors and
produce a more advanced technology vehicle that could become benchmark for its category.
Innovation
The Team wants to drive innovation into everything he does. It works to become a mean by which
partners and sponsors could create and develop innovative products and processes.
Cooperation
The Team could never obtain the results achieved without the help and collaboration of their
partners. The Teams ambition is to became a benchmark for cooperation between corporate world
and Italian educational institutions.