2843.4 Mpg
#1
04-15-2008, 04:57 AM
2843.4 Mpg
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.
The wining "car" looks a lot like a plastic-covered recumbent bicycle. It is interesting that a High School class came up with the winner, and not a team of professional engineers with corporate sponsorship.
Because the contest is sponsored by an oil company, the winner is the internal combustion vehicle with the best MPG. But other kinds of power plants were in the contest.
The news article is at: http://www.news.com/8301-11128_3-9918198-54.html
There is also a slashdot thread at: http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?.../04/14/1911225
The wining "car" looks a lot like a plastic-covered recumbent bicycle. It is interesting that a High School class came up with the winner, and not a team of professional engineers with corporate sponsorship.
Because the contest is sponsored by an oil company, the winner is the internal combustion vehicle with the best MPG. But other kinds of power plants were in the contest.
The news article is at: http://www.news.com/8301-11128_3-9918198-54.html
There is also a slashdot thread at: http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?.../04/14/1911225
#2
04-15-2008, 07:07 AM
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Re: 2843.4 Mpg
Wow, too bad it was windy, bet they could have pushed that up to 2850mpg without the 50 mph winds 
#3
05-01-2008, 08:24 PM
Re: 2843.4 Mpg
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.
The wining "car" looks a lot like a plastic-covered recumbent bicycle. It is interesting that a High School class came up with the winner, and not a team of professional engineers with corporate sponsorship.
Because the contest is sponsored by an oil company, the winner is the internal combustion vehicle truck part with the best MPG. But other kinds of power plants were in the contest.
The news article is at: http://www.news.com/8301-11128_3-9918198-54.html
There is also a slashdot thread at: http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?.../04/14/1911225
The wining "car" looks a lot like a plastic-covered recumbent bicycle. It is interesting that a High School class came up with the winner, and not a team of professional engineers with corporate sponsorship.
Because the contest is sponsored by an oil company, the winner is the internal combustion vehicle truck part with the best MPG. But other kinds of power plants were in the contest.
The news article is at: http://www.news.com/8301-11128_3-9918198-54.html
There is also a slashdot thread at: http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?.../04/14/1911225
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