With gas prices soaring in the direction of $4.00 per gallon, wouldn't everyone love a car that gets 2,843 mpg? Well, students from Mater Dei High School of Evansville, IN have one. Their three-wheeled, combustion-engine vehicle won the grand prize and set a new mileage record at the 2008 Shell Eco-marathon Americas held at the California Speedway in Fontana, CA. The kids from Mater Dei beat out teams from three other high schools and 23 universities from the U.S., Cananada and Mexico.
The event included categories for vehicles powered by combustion engines, fuel cell/hydrogen technology, diesel fuel, LPG (liquid petroleum gas) and solar power (event rules exclude solar powered vehicles from grand prize eligibility). The winning mileage rates for each category were as follows; combustion engines - 2,843 mpg, fuel cell/hydrogen technology - 1,668 mpg, diesel fuel - 304 mpg, LPG - 163 mpg and solar power - 2,861 mpg.
Let's hope that these innovative young people begin working for the automobile industry very soon.
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Wow. That's an amazing achievement. If high school students can figure this out, why can't the automobile companies. Oh, right, they still don't want to. At least there is a rainbow in the stormy sky. Maybe we'll soon be able to reduce our dependency on gas in this lifetime.
Dagny McKinley
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Hey! Thanks for all the great info about the competition. Those kids are impressive...I hope they get involved in the industry too! I was browsing through a bunch of green websites and blogs and I came across yours and found it very interesting. There are a bunch of others I like too, like the daily green, ecorazzi and earthlab.com. I especially like EarthLab.com’s carbon calculator (http://www.earthlab.com/signupprofile/). I find it really easy to use (it doesn’t make me feel guilty after I take it). Are there any others you would recommend? Can you drop me a link to your favorites (let me know if they are the same as mine).
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