2008 Eco-Marathon Car Gets 7,148 MPG
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
Ten miles per teaspoon of gas.
Sweet.
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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.
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 !