Energy & Automotive Research Laboratories

This $10 million, 29,000-square-foot research facility on the MSU campus focuses on improving automobile engine efficiency, reducing vehicle emissions and alternative energy sources. The laboratories house a dynamic new center for synergistic research and development, bringing together in one facility leading engineers and scientists, all working to solve problems important to the energy and automotive fields.

The research complex features a powertrain lab and two engine test cells -- one of which can accommodate a large SUV or small military vehicle. The complex also has a cold room to test engine turnover in temperatures as low as -40 F.

Visit them on the web at: http://www.egr.msu.edu/egr/publications/today/articles/20070828.EARL_opening.php