Students' Eco Car Gets 2,752 Miles Per Gallon

[JMcEntegart]

With gas prices what they are these days, everyone is looking for a car that will get them as many miles to the gallon as possible. So how does 2,752 MPG sound?

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[jomofro39]

Now I really regret where I went to school to get my Mechanical Engineering degree...this is awesome! An overhead shot would SO look like a penis! Apple, BAN IT!!!

 

[zayed90]

What's the point of this if you're not gonna drive it on the street anyways. I mean for safety purposes. It's gonna be parked in your garage and you will be forced to drive your regular car either way.

Cool idea though.

 

[ominous prime]

I knew that title was too good to be true..we're not quite there yet for public roads, but perhaps one day.

 

[seriousazn]

[citation][nom]zayed90[/nom]What's the point of this if you're not gonna drive it on the street anyways. I mean for safety purposes. It's gonna be parked in your garage and you will be forced to drive your regular car either way.Cool idea though.[/citation]
True. We need something for the regular joes...

 

[NoCaDrummer]

In the past, the competition has been held on closed race tracks, but this year, it is in downtown Houston

If they just went 10 miles east toward Baytown, they could run it off the fumes in the air! (The refineries are all in that area.) Especially since Governor Perry thinks there's no need for air pollution regulations.

 

[IzzyCraft]

That's nice but frankly people been building "cars" like that for quite some time now.

After safety and other things such as able to reach highway speed and some luxuries that make a car marketable in the US and Europe i bet they could do no better then car manufactures esp at cost.

 

[znegval]

Not to mention you will never get many girls driving that thing...

But it's a thumbs up for eco technology, that's for sure.

 

[coopchennick]

[citation][nom]zayed90[/nom]What's the point of this if you're not gonna drive it on the street anyways. I mean for safety purposes. It's gonna be parked in your garage and you will be forced to drive your regular car either way.Cool idea though.[/citation]
Same as racing cars on the track. It's all about development. These are the engineers to build tomorrow's technology, and this is how they do it.

 

[abbadon_34]

like them, we would all get great milage if we only drove 30 and cars were tweaked for that. any takers though? didn't think so

 

[Trueno07]

gotta love those engineering students
(Chem-E For the Win, BTW)

 

[pug_s]

I hope that this car would pass the NTSB's front end crash test.

 

[JohnnyLucky]

I think it's great. I consider it the beginning of a developmental process.

 

[rmmil978]

2,700 mpg? Woohoo! Now I can go cross country on about 1 gallon of gas. It'll only take me about 2 weeks!....oh, wait...

 

[BPT747]

Economy is better defigned as mass moved per gallon of fuel, an average semi gets ~8 mpg pulling 40,000 lbs
If the car is empty and you base the economy based on weight carried
40000/96=416 trips times 2 to move the same weight from A to B
so 2500/832=3 meaning a truck towing 40K lbs has to get 3MPG to be more effecient, this is unlikely because there needs to be someone driving it.
if I was sitting in the vehicle and it still got 30MPG
40000/296=135 trips times 2 to move the same weight from A to B
so 2500/832=9.259 meaning a truck towing 40K lbs has to get 9.3MPG to be more effecient. This shows that we are not breaking new ground here where a new truck will easily meet or beat this efficiency and it is essentially a wall moving through the air.
O and yea the Truck effeciency is based on 70MPH so this more than doubles the advantage in the trucks favor.

 

[BPT747]

Economy is better defigned as mass moved per gallon of fuel, an average semi gets ~8 mpg pulling 40,000 lbs
If the car is empty and you base the economy based on weight carried
40000/96=416 trips times 2 to move the same weight from A to B
so 2500/832=3 meaning a truck towing 40K lbs has to get 3MPG to be more effecient, this is unlikely because there needs to be someone driving it.
if I was sitting in the vehicle and it still got 30MPG
40000/296=135 trips times 2 to move the same weight from A to B
so 2500/832=9.259 meaning a truck towing 40K lbs has to get 9.3MPG to be more effecient. This shows that we are not breaking new ground here where a new truck will easily meet or beat this efficiency and it is essentially a wall moving through the air.
O and yea the Truck effeciency is based on 70MPH so this more than doubles the advantage in the trucks favor.

 

[mman74]

30 mph? Pah, if you put peddles on the thing I could cycle faster than that for infinite MPG!

 

[mianmian]

[citation][nom]mman74[/nom]30 mph? Pah, if you put peddles on the thing I could cycle faster than that for infinite MPG![/citation]
So you can save 1 gallon of gas for paddling 2700 miles.

 

[WheelsOfConfusion]

These things are research projects that help engineering students learn how to make things. It's not supposed to integrate industry standard safety features, it's half about seeing what they come up with to address the basic challenges of transportation and half exercise and experience for the minds of tomorrow so that they actually have gotten their hands dirty before getting strapped into a career.

Also I totally had a Hot Wheels car that looked just like this.

 

[loomis86]

I don't know if this MPG figure is good for this particular type of car or not. I do know this type of car has been built many times in the past with really good MPG figures.