New Car gets 1,900 MPG
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http://www.fun-on.com/technology190407a-Eco-marathon.php[^]
The team from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo won the first Shell Eco-marathon Americas with a gasoline-fueled combustion engine vehicle that delivered 1,902.7 mpg.cal poly, Eco-marathon The Eco-marathon challenges student teams to design and build the most fuel-efficient vehicles, which are tested in a mileage challenge. The Eco-marathon concept started as the Shell Mileage Marathon in 1939 after a friendly wager between employees of Shell Oil’s research laboratory in Wood River, Illinois, as to whose car could get the better fuel mileage. Shell has been running the current Eco-marathon for more than 20 years in the Europe and the UK, and brought a version of the event to the US for the first time this year. The Eco-marathon Americas ran April 13 -14, 2007, at the California Speedway in Fontana, California. Shell challenged the engineering students to drive their vehicles the farthest distance using the least amount of fuel, either conventional or alternative. Twenty-three teams competed in the combustion engine category. Second-place went Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology (Terre Haute, IN) at 1,637.2 mpg, with third-place going to Mater Dei High School (Evansville, IN) at 1,596 miles per gallon. The Los Altos Academy of Engineering (Hacienda Heights, CA), the sole hydrogen engine entrant, came it with 1,038 mpg. The 2007 European Shell Eco-marathon event is set to take place at the Nogaro Racing Circuit in the South of France on May 11-13, 2007. With more than 250 teams from educational institutions in 20 different countries, this year’s event is set to be the biggest ever. The teams are not only competing to break the European Shell Eco-marathon fuel efficiency record, but also competing for a host of other awards in various categories—from best Urban Concept vehicle (designed for normal road car use), to the most eco-friendly vehicle with the lowest emissions, best technical innovation, most impressive design and most effective communications campaign.
Ron Paul for President of the United States of America
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http://www.fun-on.com/technology190407a-Eco-marathon.php[^]
The team from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo won the first Shell Eco-marathon Americas with a gasoline-fueled combustion engine vehicle that delivered 1,902.7 mpg.cal poly, Eco-marathon The Eco-marathon challenges student teams to design and build the most fuel-efficient vehicles, which are tested in a mileage challenge. The Eco-marathon concept started as the Shell Mileage Marathon in 1939 after a friendly wager between employees of Shell Oil’s research laboratory in Wood River, Illinois, as to whose car could get the better fuel mileage. Shell has been running the current Eco-marathon for more than 20 years in the Europe and the UK, and brought a version of the event to the US for the first time this year. The Eco-marathon Americas ran April 13 -14, 2007, at the California Speedway in Fontana, California. Shell challenged the engineering students to drive their vehicles the farthest distance using the least amount of fuel, either conventional or alternative. Twenty-three teams competed in the combustion engine category. Second-place went Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology (Terre Haute, IN) at 1,637.2 mpg, with third-place going to Mater Dei High School (Evansville, IN) at 1,596 miles per gallon. The Los Altos Academy of Engineering (Hacienda Heights, CA), the sole hydrogen engine entrant, came it with 1,038 mpg. The 2007 European Shell Eco-marathon event is set to take place at the Nogaro Racing Circuit in the South of France on May 11-13, 2007. With more than 250 teams from educational institutions in 20 different countries, this year’s event is set to be the biggest ever. The teams are not only competing to break the European Shell Eco-marathon fuel efficiency record, but also competing for a host of other awards in various categories—from best Urban Concept vehicle (designed for normal road car use), to the most eco-friendly vehicle with the lowest emissions, best technical innovation, most impressive design and most effective communications campaign.
Ron Paul for President of the United States of America
Old news, from what I can remember the World Record is 10s of thousands of MPG. It was on 5th Gear a few years ago where Vicki Butler-Henderson tried to beat Schumacher at driving the most efficiently, in the end he won. But there was a record of something like 19,000MPG recorded that day. Of course the cars were not practical so it didn't matter. (Of course I may have got it all wrong but that's what I remember).
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http://www.fun-on.com/technology190407a-Eco-marathon.php[^]
The team from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo won the first Shell Eco-marathon Americas with a gasoline-fueled combustion engine vehicle that delivered 1,902.7 mpg.cal poly, Eco-marathon The Eco-marathon challenges student teams to design and build the most fuel-efficient vehicles, which are tested in a mileage challenge. The Eco-marathon concept started as the Shell Mileage Marathon in 1939 after a friendly wager between employees of Shell Oil’s research laboratory in Wood River, Illinois, as to whose car could get the better fuel mileage. Shell has been running the current Eco-marathon for more than 20 years in the Europe and the UK, and brought a version of the event to the US for the first time this year. The Eco-marathon Americas ran April 13 -14, 2007, at the California Speedway in Fontana, California. Shell challenged the engineering students to drive their vehicles the farthest distance using the least amount of fuel, either conventional or alternative. Twenty-three teams competed in the combustion engine category. Second-place went Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology (Terre Haute, IN) at 1,637.2 mpg, with third-place going to Mater Dei High School (Evansville, IN) at 1,596 miles per gallon. The Los Altos Academy of Engineering (Hacienda Heights, CA), the sole hydrogen engine entrant, came it with 1,038 mpg. The 2007 European Shell Eco-marathon event is set to take place at the Nogaro Racing Circuit in the South of France on May 11-13, 2007. With more than 250 teams from educational institutions in 20 different countries, this year’s event is set to be the biggest ever. The teams are not only competing to break the European Shell Eco-marathon fuel efficiency record, but also competing for a host of other awards in various categories—from best Urban Concept vehicle (designed for normal road car use), to the most eco-friendly vehicle with the lowest emissions, best technical innovation, most impressive design and most effective communications campaign.
Ron Paul for President of the United States of America
With gas being at $3.25/gallon here in Minnesota, US, I'd settle for a 50 MPG car. :-p
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With gas being at $3.25/gallon here in Minnesota, US, I'd settle for a 50 MPG car. :-p
Tech, life, family, faith: Give me a visit. I'm currently blogging about: Funny Love The apostle Paul, modernly speaking: Epistles of Paul Judah Himango
Prius's get about 45 real world MPGs. Not quire what you want but probably about as close as you're going to get in a reasonably sized and priced vehicle anytime soon.
-- You have to explain to them [VB coders] what you mean by "typed". their first response is likely to be something like, "Of course my code is typed. Do you think i magically project it onto the screen with the power of my mind?" --- John Simmons / outlaw programmer
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Prius's get about 45 real world MPGs. Not quire what you want but probably about as close as you're going to get in a reasonably sized and priced vehicle anytime soon.
-- You have to explain to them [VB coders] what you mean by "typed". their first response is likely to be something like, "Of course my code is typed. Do you think i magically project it onto the screen with the power of my mind?" --- John Simmons / outlaw programmer
dan neely wrote:
Prius's get about 45 real world MPGs.
It all depends on how much driving you do around the city vs. highway. I get 48mpg real world inside a city. But as soon I hit the 75mph speed limit it drops to 39mpg. Mine gets less than a Prius in mpg. If I leave early for work, I get 48mpg on the highway because I can drive under the speed limit at 65mph, which is near the sweet-spot on my vehicle. The actual sweet-spot is at 60mph where I can get 52mpg, but I never seem to drive anywhere that I feel comfortable driving only at 60mph. :) 65 in a 75 is already pushing it. But lately I haven't been leaving early. I need to start again though.... :sigh:
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
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dan neely wrote:
Prius's get about 45 real world MPGs.
It all depends on how much driving you do around the city vs. highway. I get 48mpg real world inside a city. But as soon I hit the 75mph speed limit it drops to 39mpg. Mine gets less than a Prius in mpg. If I leave early for work, I get 48mpg on the highway because I can drive under the speed limit at 65mph, which is near the sweet-spot on my vehicle. The actual sweet-spot is at 60mph where I can get 52mpg, but I never seem to drive anywhere that I feel comfortable driving only at 60mph. :) 65 in a 75 is already pushing it. But lately I haven't been leaving early. I need to start again though.... :sigh:
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
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El Corazon wrote:
The actual sweet-spot is at 60mph where I can get 52mpg,
What kind of vehicle do you have? How come the name change?
S Douglas wrote:
What kind of vehicle do you have?
Civic Hybrid, my girlfriend has the Camry Hybrid
S Douglas wrote:
How come the name change?
It's the clark kent/superman test... see if anyone notices... ;) actually, rule changes at work.
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)