OK...so you have a diesel motor, generating electricity, to be stored in a storage device (battery, or the like). You push the skinny pedal on the right, get propelled forward with 650 horses pushing/pulling you. Ummm, pushing/pulling for how long?? 10 seconds? 10 mins? Might as well get a huge industrial rubber band, wind it up with the help of a diesel, and when you let it go, you get thrust forward until your momentum peters out a mile down the road. I'm not doing the math, but if the diesel used a 1/4 cup of fuel to wind the rubber band/charge the battery, I bet the mpg, would be up there.

Ok....how about this..... How many btu's does it take to go one mile (theoretically speaking) - say, we are moving 1000lbs (car + passengers) ?

(the reason I ask, is I want to know if 650hp & 175mpg is theoretically possible)

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