2,565mpg car wins high efficiency race

greenman7

The Shell eco marathon was won by a petrol driven car built by students at the university Laval in Quebec. They improved last years performance by 77mpg!!

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/energy/2011/04/110418-shell-ecomarathon-houston-winners/

harveybobbles

I'm sure Conor will be along to tell us his Mondeo TDCi does better than that...

Kilty_2

I do wonder why Shell sponsor an eco-marathon?

To show they're a caring sharing oil company? :rotfl:

bengalknights

Im more impressed by that french version achieving 6973.4mpg now thats astonishing

Flyboy152

What a complete and utter waste of time. When will they start to develop cars that will do a hundred miles to the gallon?

Kilty_2

Flyboy152 wrote: »

When will they start to develop cars that will do a hundred miles to the gallon?

When law/taxation forces them to. No sooner.

It's not exactly in an oil company's best interest for you to get 100MPG is it

davidjwest

No, but it is in the car manufacturers interests!

thescouselander

You can hardly compare that to a normal car though - they hardly look very practical and I bet there are no safety features either - the car in the picture doesn't even look as if it has lights!

I bet the race was done on empty streets too so there was no stopping and starting.


I have to agree with Flyboy - waste of time.

greenman7

What a complete and utter waste of time. When will they start to develop cars that will do a hundred miles to the gallon?

I think this sums it up;

It illustrates a truth from stories of all the 69 teams that competed in last weekend's Shell Eco-marathon Americas. Put enough young, smart folks together and ask them to focus on making a single vehicle, and the very barriers that have proven too steep for the big auto companies don't seem so insurmountable.

Lum

It's worth noting that that figure is probably miles per US gallon. In UK gallons that thing actually gets 3080.2 mpg.

It doesn't say if that French one is petrol or diesel? I'd guess diesel.

mustrum_ridcully

Still doesn't compare to the winner of the 2005 race PAC-Car II which ran on hydrogen and achieved the equivalent of 5,385 km per litre of gasoline.