12th Jul 2002
7,733 Miles per Gallon
Mark Haas points out this news brief from the Kyodo News Agency
Japanese team wins fuel-efficiency car race in London
LONDON July 11 Kyodo - A Japanese motor team won the fuel-efficiency Shell Eco-Marathon race in the northern London suburb Corby on Thursday, completing 15.9 kilometers with just 4.836 cubic centimeters of gasoline. The fuel consumption translates into an astounding 3,294 kilometers per liter of gasoline, but still short of the 3,600-km-per-liter record marked in a similar race in Scotland last year.
According to Mark’s calculations (I’ll take his word on it), that works out to 7733.456 miles per gallon.
I can’t find any other source on this piece but would be interested in more details if anyone finds some. Does anyone besides me believe there is a real political/corporate energy conspiracy going on keeping us addicted to gasoline?
Ever heard of Zero Pollution Motors (aka Motor Development International), a company manufacturing a car that runs solely on compressed air (based on technology created by a former French Formula One engineer)? They got some publicity a couple of years ago (here’s a BBC piece), but I haven’t heard boo about them lately, and their web site is about the clunkiest, least-informative business sites out there, unfortunately. I suppose they’ll probably get acquired by GM, never to be heard from again. Personally, I haven’t owned a car in almost 20 years, and I like it that way, but this is the car I would buy if I were to break down (despite its completely retarded design; why must all alternative power cars look so asinine?).
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