UBC Engineers Reach Mileage Of Over 3000 MPG

The New Revelation writes "Physorg reports that engineers at UBC have developed a single occupancy vehicle that achieves a ridiculous 3145 MPG! From the article: 'The Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) Supermileage Competition took place June 9 in Marshall, Michigan. Forty teams from Canada, the U.S. and India competed in designing and building the most fuel-efficient vehicle... The UBC design, which required the driver to lie down while navigating it, achieved 3,145 miles per US gallon (0.074 liters/100 km) -- equivalent of Vancouver to Halifax on a gallon (3.79 liters) of gas -- costing less than $5 at the pump.'"

Comments

Re:That begs the question

[Anonymous Coward]

You have no idea what "begs the question" means, moron.

Re:speed?

[Anonymous Coward]

"Wonder what speed it travels for it is optimal fuel consumtion" -- this doesn't make sense. Did you mean "its"?

does it have a trunk?

[Tecknowolf]

I like the concept and all, but I want to see the rumor come true that an X-Prize contest be in creating a usable vehicle with superior gas mileage. I can't pick up a date or carry home groceries in those vehicles :)

Hurricane Season

[Joebert]

That car sucks.

How efficient of an electric generator does that work out to ?

Re:This is a big deal

[ubernostrum]

But of course, what we were all expecting from you was an explanation of how the Jews are keeping super-efficient cars off the general market.

(mods confused? Google either his nickname or real name in conjunction with the word "Nazi" and all will become clear; he's a living embodiment of Godwin's Law, which is kind of handy to have around sometimes...)

Re:km per liter

[isorox]

Google tells me that 3 145 miles per gallon = 1 337.07695 kilometers per liter

Why do otherwise educated people, especially Americans, not understand accuracy.

Being very generous, we can assume 3145mpg is accurate to +-0.5mpg, it's probably neared +-2.5mpg.

They get about 3145mpg, which is about 1337km/l.

I travel at 120km/h on the motorway. That's 75mph, not 74.564543mph.

Re:That begs the question

[Anonymous Coward]

The language spoken in Mexico is MEXICAN if it differs from (Castillan) Spanish, just like the crap that Americans speak is AMERICAN rather than English.

Re:speed? Results

[x2A]

"that this was a circular course, that makes for a race track that is down hill all the way around!" ...either that, or the 1% uphill bit covers more area than the 7% downhill bit???