Eco-Marathon Team Hits 2,843 mpg

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday April 14, 2008 @07:53AM from the hard-to-fit-your-groceries-in-there dept.

At this year's Shell Eco-marathon Americas event the team from Mater Dei High School shattered last year's record by traveling 2,843.4 miles on a single gallon of gasoline. "How did the Evansville, Ind., team come up with its winning airfoil-meets-teardrop design and beat out its largely collegiate competitors? "It comes from trial and error, seeing what works and what doesn't," an unidentified student and team member told a local newscaster Friday. Those top three vehicles, like most in the competition (25 out of 33 total), used internal combustion engines. The goal for all entrants was to travel as far as possible using as little fuel as possible. Vehicles--sans driver--couldn't weigh more than 160 kilograms (352 pounds), while drivers had to weigh at least 50 kilograms."

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biggest scam article headline ever by sofar · 2008-04-14 08:59 · Score: 1, Troll

these cars have "some" gas engine in it. but the winner had over 200 sqft of solar panels and could as well have just used the RV plane gasoline engine in it to provide as a fresh air fan for the driver.

please remember that there are yearly races through australia where cars driver 3000 miles on NO GASOLINE AT ALL.

the REAL winners in this article are the two models that did 300+ and 160+ mpg (on DIESEL) without any solar panels.

now THAT should have been the headline.