7,000 MPG car

[Little6pack]

7,000 MPG car wins eco-marathon : Yahoo! Green

 

[slow87]

Far better than walking, I'd pimp it.

 

[rmar]

I'm in the mood, the rhythm is right.......

anybody want to chime in here?

 

[BlackMetal]

Crazy. The technology is out there, somebody somewhere wants to keep up depending on oil...

 

[klrv6]

And the real world little brother of this competition

Green Car Congress: 2006 Tour De Sol Entrants Averaged 66 MPG

The 7000 mpg car will trickle it's technology down to "normal" cars as time goes by. There used to be rumors of cars that could achieve 100 mpg, we have those now.

 

[faster]

Anyone remember when Smokey Unick took that 2.2 liter Dodge Omni and basically built a ceramic motor for it about 15 years ago? He got 45 city and 50+ highway by supeheating the gas. It made 340+ horspower and had just got it to daily driver status when Chrysler cancelled the project, took the car and ended funding. The average car uses about 3-4% of the energy in every drop of fuel for propulsion and he was up to like 30%. Virtually no radiator and plastic exhaust.
It was published in Popular Mechanics or Popular Science.

Mikey

 

[GNVYUS 1]

I am sort of surprised the car companies haven't moved over to producing more aluminum components to drop the weight of vehicles by now. It's pretty easy to drop the weight down 1000lbs with carbon and aluminum and increase gas mileage 33% right there. Then you hear the new Dodge Challenger is going to weigh 4100lbs, 600lbs heavier than the original.

I know it would cost a bunch up front but it's not like they don't know this stuff already and the EPA is going to put a hurt on them down the line with the increased gas mileage mandates.

 

[klrv6]

Honda

The Insight is aluminum. It is my understanding that both Honda and GM had prototypes electric cars and shelved the design until they were needed again (not that long of a wait). Ever notice how the original insight looks just like an older CRX?

 

[Pronto]

Anyone remember when Smokey Unick took that 2.2 liter Dodge Omni and basically built a ceramic motor for it about 15 years ago? He got 45 city and 50+ highway by supeheating the gas. It made 340+ horspower and had just got it to daily driver status when Chrysler cancelled the project, took the car and ended funding. The average car uses about 3-4% of the energy in every drop of fuel for propulsion and he was up to like 30%. Virtually no radiator and plastic exhaust.
It was published in Popular Mechanics or Popular Science.

Mikey

I'm kind of suprised the more ceramic materials aren't being used in the auto industry. The use of ceramic engines would be great since they wouldn't need a radiator. I remember when I read about them years ago the military was looking at them since radiators are so vunerable.

 

[savage6]

Move to the music.....

 

[rmar]

We can roll all night.

We have a winner

I was begining to worry.



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