The student teams are coming from across the world like McGill University and University of Manitoba from Canada, MADI State Technical University from Russia, National Chiao Tung University from Taiwan, Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology from India and Thapar University also from India. The returning teams are from the universities of Dartmouth College, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Illinois Institute of Technology, University of Vermont, McGill University, North Carolina State University, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Drexel University, Florida Institute of Technology, University of California Irvine and Yale University. The new teams from United States are from California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, Arizona State University, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Colorado State University, University of Alabama - Tuscaloosa, Texas A&M University and University of California, San Diego, to name a few. Illinois Institute of Technology was the only team to register two cars with distinct hybrid drive-train systems - WISER Hawks I and Wiser Hawks II. They only ran the parallel-hybrid; the series hybrid was not finished due to the complex high-voltage electrical connections.