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Students Shoot for 2,500 MPG. Seriously

Posted April 15, 2011 8:47 AM

From Wired Top Stories:

The car runs, so there is that. But as the Cal Super Mileage Vehicle Team loaded its ultralight carbon-fiber three-wheeler into a trailer for the long haul from Berkeley to Houston, Murphy was definitely in the driver's seat. Anything that could go wrong did - and did so in the last 12 hours before the team was to leave for the Shell Eco-marathon.

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04/18/2011 1:45 AM

I don't think that 2500 mpg can be taken seriously for any real-world useful vehicle.

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