High Schoolers Create Car That Gets 1,693 Miles-Per-Gallon

OK...so High schoolers can figure this stuff out.... What the heck is the matter with the auto industry? We aren't asking for 1693 mpg. Just 75 would do!!!!!!

This project should be red lighted and imposed on the industry. Gas prices should be frozen at the prewar rate until this project is in place. What a victory in the war on terror done by the next generation. Yeah America!

Now if the big oil companies don't buy and destroy these plans we might actually have something worthwhile here.

1693 miles per gallon is not that impressive, compared to the 2005 winner of the Shell Eco-marathon. That car attained 12,665 miles per gallon. Shell points out that it would be possible for the Eco-Marathon winner "to travel three times around the equator on the same amount of fuel that Concorde needed to reach the end of the runway."

Car makers can also make cars that can drive hundreds of thosands of miles but they don't due to the fact that they will lose money since consumers won't have to buy another car until the body rots out. For example tow trucks and Mack trucks can max out the odometer and restart.

Sctommy & Cecil - You do realize these vehicles are "cars" in name only - They have no safety structure, no storage space, no towing/cargo capacity, no a/c, no fm radio, no lights, no suspension. Essentially, these are ultra-lightweight go-carts with aerodynamic coverings. If we were willing to do without all the electronic do-dads and fancy interiors and off-road ability, we could easily double the fuel economy. But that ain't going to happen.

In 1933 a man named Pogue came up with a hot vapor carb and the gasoline companies changed the formula to defeat it . How many more inventions are hidden.It's time to break their control.We can make a differents. Check out http://ww.thefinfuelvaporizer.com

If you click on Peter Burger's link about the fin fuel vaporizor you will not have success finding the site unless you add the third w to www. This works.

the technology exist to achieve 100 plus mpg, but remember big oil (EXXON'S $40 BILLION) controls America and American govt. So there!

I want one!!!

Hooray for America's future! How proud their parents, families and teachers must be of them.
I am proud to be an American, now and always have been!!

WE ARE NOT LIMITED BY TECHNOLOGY. THE PROBLEM IS ECONOMICS. HOW DO WE KEEP PEOPLE WORKING AND MAKING A LIVING TO PAY FOR ALL THE THINGS YOU WANT. THERE IS A COST TO EVERYTHING. IMAGINE IF YOU WILL, THAT YOU ARE SITTING ON LAND THAT HAS
ALMOST UNLIMITED OIL RESERVES. WOULD YOU GIVE IT AWAY TO EVERYONE JUST SO THEY COULD PAY LESS. EVEN IF YOU DID THIS, WHO WOULD PAY FOR THE REFINEING OF THE CRUDE. ALSO, TRANSPORTATION TO THE GAS STATIONS. ALL OF THESE FACILITIES WOULD HAVE TO BE FREE. WHO IS GOING TO WORK FOR FREE ?

What size are the cars? Lets get real here. Is it a go-cart or a real car?

There have actually been cars developed much earlier that got mpg much lower than this, like 300 or so, but still a large jump from our 23, but the oil industry bought up the plans and locked them up. There was even a car developed to run on water. Only problem was the man who man who created it was assasinated.

Ps. the reason we stil have 20 mpg cars is cause the oil industry is a multi-billion dollar industry and they don't want that to change. Also, all that money has power.

hey, thanks for telling us how they did it. Im guessing its probably a 2 stroke weedeater motor on an aluminum frame that is no bigger than the average human could sit on. Its just not a plausable solution for automanufactures.

These kids will be rich! The oil companies will pay them millions upon millions to keep the technology off the market!!! Perhaps the automobile industry will pay them big bucks for the technology and then have the oil companies pay the automobile industry the millions upon millions to keep the technology off the market...just as it probably already is happening. Of course the politicians in Washington will probably get millions in kick-backs to pass legislation to stop the technologies from going to market...its developed by teens...can't possibly be safe for the public!!!

Well I think the HS kids are anti-Capitalism. 2000 mpg car is rediculous. how are all these rich folk gonna live if we become independent of oil. Those kids better hide , sell the idea or just shelf it if they know whats good for them.

2000 miles per gallon a few years back at lakehead university

yea those damn auto companies will just ruin the plans or something so that they can keep making tons of money. Thats what they did with a hydrogen car that got huge MPG, damn big business!!!

In the 1960's I actually owned and drove a car that got 100+ miles per gallon. It wa the BMW Isetta. It had a top speed of 80 miles per hour and I drove it
on San Diego freeways daily. If I knew then what I know now, I would still have it. I loved that car. What I want to know is why they can't put it or something like it back into production.