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A group of students at my school are working on a high efficiency vehicle. They currently get 733 miles per gallon of gasoline. They are working towards an up
by phamilton 15y ago
A group of students at my school are working on a high efficiency vehicle. They currently get 733 miles per gallon of gasoline. They are working towards an upcoming competition, where the winner usually gets around 2000 miles per gallon. These are vehicles which hold a driver. Alternatives just aren't anywhere near that efficient yet, and so it's difficult to provide compelling reasons to switch.
- ryanhuff 15y agoHow does milage fare when you factor in the weight additions and structural design changes necessary to make a vehicle street legal in the U.S.?
- s_henry_paulson 15y agoNot sure what you're talking about. My father drives a Honda Civic GX (the only car factory built to run on CNG available to the general public). The car gets slightly more mileage on a tank of CNG than a similar car gets on a tank of petrol (although this is a difficult comparison to make due to the differences in fuel, storage, tank size, etc.). Point is, it goes just as far and it's much cheaper. I don't understand your argument that these vehicles are somehow less efficient than their counterparts.
- sliverstorm 15y agoHonda Civic GX (the only car factory built to run on CNG available to the general public) Point is ... it's much cheaper. I wonder if these two things might be related?
- darklajid 15y agoCool - reducing the amount of fuel needed is great. That said - it seems Wolfram|Alpha is translating your buddies current result to roundabout 3l/100km (per 100km is the mpg here) and.. We have that. In a car that runs on public roads (VW Lupo in this case), today. Yes, we need to push it further. But I'm not sure how you could call a bare-bone (I guess?) research vehicle interesting and special if it just reaches the efficiency of a street-legal car...