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Can Your Car Get 1,700 MPG?
Xaroth writes "Given all the hubbub over EPA mileage ratings, I'm a little surprised that this one hasn't come up earlier. SAE apparently holds a contest each year to encourage students to design single-person, fuel-efficient vehicles. This year's winner achieved 1,747.4 MPG, with the press release that tipped me off pointing out that third got a 'measly' 1,194. There are more details on the competition over at SAE's site about the competition. Now, if only they could make these street-legal..." However, even the winner has nothing on top entries we mentioned in Shell's competition a few years back.
and that's how I likes it.
(you knew this one was coming)
Somehow I dont think a styrofoam hummer will take off..unless there is a gust of wind.
Fred Flinstone, with infinite miles to the gallon.
My rights don't need management.
if my car could get 17000 mpegs my porn
collection would almost be complete.
"Is this just useless, or is it expensive as well?"
I'm not impressed. The Spanish in the 15th century in their voyages to the New World and back were getting thousands of miles per galleon.
we'd all be a lot healthier if we followed Fred's example
I suspect the cardio vascular benefits of using your legs to power your car would be dwarfed in comparison to the damaged caused by eating one of those ribs that toppled said car.
Your saying that your car can drive 4305564.16 Square Feet for every 52.5 gallons? First of all how do you calculate how many square feet a car drives? You would have to take the width of the car and multiply it by the length the car has driven. I will assume for the sake of easy math that your car is 10 feet wide; If you divide 10 4305564.16 by 10 you get 430556.416 feet, which converts to about 81.5 miles. That means that your car gets 1.55 miles to the gallon, which is pretty bad unless of coarse you are driving a canyonaro. :P
This sig was generated by a barrel of trained kittens for SeXy_Red (550409).
I went all the way across the U.S. on a gallon of whiskey.
BTW, if you happen to be those frightened pedestrians I saw in Kentucky, that was an accident.
It gets 12mpg and I am from Arkansas. I felt ya'll needed an actually person to criticize instead of using all those pesky stereotypes.
I find that when riding my bicycle, I often produce natural gas....
Yeah. You win the div/0 award.
My father is a gas company executive, you insensitive clod!!! ... although he did go to Rose-Hulman. ;)
Very well; let this abomination unto the Lord begin!
Don't forget that way over 99% of the sun's energy is going out into empty space (or to distant planets and stars at a useless energy density).
We need to make the sun more efficient!
Oh wait.... This is Slashdot... Never mind... :-)
The race isn't always to the swift... but that's the way to bet!
Must be a bitch to take that shiny new 21 inch monitor home from the store.
Mom was driving by the computer store anyway.
So, you're saying that flooring the car at every stoplight and hard breaking at every opportunity is _not_ good for MPG?
but 1500 mpg is a bit out of reach
640 MPG should be enough for anybody. (sorry, couldn't resist)
For every post, there is an equal and opposite re-post.
No, I don't have a girlfriend, but damn it, it's the principle of the thing.
Dunno 'bout him, but the one I get to talk to on occasion comes up with gems like:
"SUV's should be ILLEGAL!" (what about people who haul heavy/large loads, i.e. construction workers?)
"Well, then people should have to prove they need them then!" (How?)
"Compulsory state licensing for construction workers!"
"Nobody should be allowed on the freeway without at least two people in the car!"
"Nobody should be allowed to drive more than 15 miles to work!" (how do they get to work?)
"Public transit!" (This is Los Angeles. Public transit is already inadequate to meet the meager current need)
"Tax gasoline a couple more bucks a gallon to pay for more buses!"
They're the ones who usually posit absurd solutions to in a tone of voice that makes every sentence sound like it should end with "..and the consequences be damned!" Plenty of self-righteous outrage and no common sense.
If a job's not worth doing, it's not worth doing right.
It's all chrome plated plastics now...
engine noise from the exhaust pipe
with the right resonator configuration, a 1.3L 4cyl can sound like an awfully big engine.
dangerously tinted windows
We're geeks, aren't we? I burn too easily
aggressive stance (too high to be stable)
Wrong Wrong Wrong... agressive == low and fast (with lots of stickers).
loose spinning reflectors on the wheels!!! Hate those.
jacked-up suspension, with angled drive train
those are the air bags. we can slam it to the ground if you like
V-Tec stickers :-)
don't forget the Type R 5.0 Magnum Hemi Edelbrock
violet underbody lighting
that's the 'friggin lazers warming up :)
wood trim
It's lighter than steel and comparable in weight to the plastic foam trim. Think of it as sequestering CO2.
audio system that everyone can hear
that's to drown out the blue-grass muzac coming from your station wagon.