MSU graduate mechanical engineering student Matthew Doude drives the student-created vehicle simulator at the university's Center for Advanced Vehicular Systems. Doude and other students in the EcoCar team discussed on Wednesday their goals in the three-year competition with 16 other universities in the United States and Canada to improve efficiency and reduce emissions in a GM Saturn VUE, expected to have a 40-mile, all-electric range and have a 100-miles-per-gallon highway rating.