Just to mix things up a bit, take a look at this car from the 2008 Eco-Marathon, registering at a whopping 7,148 MPG (via Autopia):
Looking like one of those space caskets from Star Trek, the single-seat racer you see to the left, constructed by a team from the French technical school St. Joseph La Joliverie and dubbed the Microjoule, traveled an amazing 7,148 miles on a single gallon of fuel (in other words, almost ten miles per teaspoon).
Shell’s Eco-Marathon race is self-described as “an educational project that integrates the sustainable development values with driving a vehicle using the least amount of energy. ” The car that travels the greatest distance and uses the least amount of fuel wins.
Of course, at some point the notion of fuel economy becomes arbitrary (and absurd). I probably used more gasoline walking to the library today (amount of food energy I had to eat to get here X the embodied energy of my food).
But more power to the engineers involved. I fully support their employment in the auto industry.
Here are two of the other competitors:
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Source: Autopia
Photo Credit: Shell
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Ten miles per teaspoon of gas.
Sweet.
Ten miles per teaspoon of gas.
Sweet.
Ten miles per teaspoon of gas.
Sweet.
Some general tech info would be nice. Fuel cells? Thermal Catalytic Cracking? Direct drive? Average speeds at rated MPG? Non-oxygenated fuel? White gasoline?
Some general tech info would be nice. Fuel cells? Thermal Catalytic Cracking? Direct drive? Average speeds at rated MPG? Non-oxygenated fuel? White gasoline?
Caution: Your mileage may vary!
No wonderous alchemy here…just what we already know. Lighter, more egg like, yada, yada, yada.
This is to a practical car what throwing a bullet is to shooting one.
Caution: Your mileage may vary!
No wonderous alchemy here…just what we already know. Lighter, more egg like, yada, yada, yada.
This is to a practical car what throwing a bullet is to shooting one.
Caution: Your mileage may vary!
No wonderous alchemy here…just what we already know. Lighter, more egg like, yada, yada, yada.
This is to a practical car what throwing a bullet is to shooting one.
Where’s the tech info !!!! Isn’t that the whole point ??
Guys like me who are trying to make a differance in thier, and others lives work on things like this. Very often the inventor in his basment make the big discoveries. A little help here Shell !
Where’s the tech info !!!! Isn’t that the whole point ??
Guys like me who are trying to make a differance in thier, and others lives work on things like this. Very often the inventor in his basment make the big discoveries. A little help here Shell !
Where’s the tech info !!!! Isn’t that the whole point ??
Guys like me who are trying to make a differance in thier, and others lives work on things like this. Very often the inventor in his basment make the big discoveries. A little help here Shell !
WOw that is awsome i would love to have that in like 5 yearsyeah that is really cool and you should make another
WOw that is awsome i would love to have that in like 5 yearsyeah that is really cool and you should make another
WOw that is awsome i would love to have that in like 5 yearsyeah that is really cool and you should make another
This shit sucks!
This shit sucks!
This shit sucks!