2,850 mpg vehicle. Yes, 2,850 MPG!
 

http://www.switched.com/2008/04/15/high-school-students-build-2-843-mpg-car/

Ok, so I lied. It was only 2,843 mpg, beating their old record of just 1700 mpg.

http://expertvoices.nsdl.org/highlights/2008/02/20/high-schoolers-build-1700-mpg-car/

Yes, I know it's still just a science project, but if high schoolers can make a vehicle that gets 2850 mpg, seems like Detroit can make something that could get 300 mpg. We don't need cars that weigh 2,000 pounds. 4,000 pound cars somehow need to be phased out so a light car doesn't have to compete with a heavy car, and/or a way to then keep trucks and heavy cars away from the new lighter cars they should be making. We simply don't need 2,000 pound cars. My ladder holds a 300 pound man, and it weighs 16 pounds. True, there's no engine or seats, but I feel confident we can make a decent car that weighs say, 1200 pounds or 1500 pounds.

Ted Turner said it best. "You have a 200 pound man, who gets in a 4,000 pound car, to go get a 1/4 pound hamburger". It's just stupid, and lighter cars need to become a reality, or we need to grow a lot of switch grass to make lots of biodiesel.

jeff

I wish I could have done something like that in high school but no one would sponsor my club... stupid local redneck businesses giving all of their sponsorship money to the stupid redneck FFA club..


I wish I could drive a car like the Aptera but the price is not in my price range, Its not out yet, and I'd probably die if i was broad sided by a geo metro.

I'd get a smart if they were sold for the price they are worth, $6k

Not bad!......even the human body could not cover that mileage without consuming more resources and expelling considerable amounts of CO2 into the atmoshpere!;)

Grow more switch grass. I'd rather be in a heavy, more safe, less fuel efficient vehicle than a lighter, less safe, more fuel efficient vehicle. What's the money that you saved on fuel worth if you were in an accident in the less safe vehicle that caused an injury or death? Costs of rehab or funeral vs. cost of fuel savings, hmm...

Personally, I prefer to take my 500 pound motorcycle to go get my burgers.

Not bad for some HS kids!
 

You mean these kids can take on Detroit? Doesn't surprise me, actually.

jeff

The best we could do in HS was building a bong in shop class. :o

Its too bad you live in a 'stupid redneck' area. FFA here in Texas is a very good program that keeps kids out of trouble, teaches them responsibility, and helps sends thousands of kids off to college.

Do you find it surprising that nobody wanted to give money to the Pee-Wee Herman Look-alike club?

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:D nice LOL

AAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!

You just said the Pee-Wee's Playhouse secret word of the day!

Better hope the law doesn't get too mad at ya!

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No, what I meant was....
 

When I said lighter cars, what I meant was, that ALL cars would have to be lighter now. You can be out in a Miller Light beer can, trying to compete with 18 wheelers. They need an entire new road system, keeping such trucks away from cars in the first place, then some way of perhaps slowly downsizing the weight of cars over years so the current heavy ones get phased out as they get older and not worth keeping up anymore.

jeff

I was breifly an officer in the FFA, and they still send me their damn newsletter. I had a nifty vest, opened meetings, in charge of fund raising and everything, lasted about 2 months until I got into college than I was like screw this.:D Its a farmers club, yee haw!:D;)

We were raising fish, worked with the Chiness and are Yankees; didn't really fit in with all the corn and pig guys.:D The conventions were interesting, my school did win a bit.

The Boy Scouts was more fun.


Cool car!

They're trying to get a road system like that here in TX called the Trans Texas Corridor. Many are opposed to it because it would be tolled by a foreign intrest group, and is possibly part of a bigger plan to make Mexico, the US, and Canada one big nation.