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Cardboard and Plywood Hydrogen Car Snags Design Award

Posted July 18, 2012 7:27 AM

From Wired Top Stories:

Most of us think of the future of eco-friendly cars in miles per gallon (or miles per kilowatt-hour). But a design team from Britain?s Aston University looked at the carbon consequences of the shipping required to move tons of steel and batteries from the factory to the garage. Their unnamed but fully functional concept is made of plywood, cardboard, and a little bit of metal. The whole thing can fold into a flat, light, and stackable package.

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07/18/2012 10:00 AM

Cardboard and plywood, excellent.
The article is pretty light on real info'
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07/18/2012 11:25 AM

Cardboard and plywood!!!

But the trees, the trees! What will happen to all the trees?
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07/18/2012 11:27 AM

Them's a renewabubble rezource innit?
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07/18/2012 12:34 PM

Cardboard, Plywood, and Hydrogen? Sounds like a fire in search of a spark to me.

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07/18/2012 7:22 PM

You wouldn't have to worry about recycling eh?

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07/18/2012 7:28 PM

Only your carbon footprint.
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07/19/2012 11:12 AM

No smoking please . . . .
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07/19/2012 2:37 PM

"Roadrunners from the Technical University of Denmark got up to 611.1 km per liter (1,437 mpg). MAC Eco Team from the Netherlands manage to get 416.3 km per liter (979 mpg) efficiency. Those are not typos: With a lightweight car, engineers can get miles per gallon into the thousands."
More information about that please.
1437MPG?!? Seriously?
Yes Please. Worldwide fuel shortage solved... I would gladly pay $50.00+/gallon if I got mileage like that.

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