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This paper deals with the energy based control of a group of interconnected vehicles modeled as point masses. The control design is carried out by first shaping the kinetic energy and afterwards adding virtual potential energy and dissipative terms in order to achieve the desired stability performance. We assume that the vehicles move on a 2D surface and apply the results to simple examples with two and three units.