Torque Profile Optimization for Shell Eco-Marathon Urban Category Race

In this paper, we analyze the possibilities of optimizing the driving strategy for energyefficient electric vehicles competing in the Shell Eco-marathon race.The base method we already developed and successfully applied for several years-winning the Urban Concept Battery Electric competition of the 2022, 2023, and 2024 Shell Eco-marathon races-was further tested, with small modifications to our optimization method.We only used an optimizer tool based on a genetic algorithm.We were interested in determining how a modification to the minimalization problem could help our optimizer find the best driving cycle to reach the minimum energy consumption.We successfully applied the modification to our method at the 2025 competition, where we beat our own record and proved its practical applicability.