QUOTE (Patch @ 01-Feb-2012, 08:27 PM) | Several years ago there was an individual who had entered a national competition to produce the "best milage vehicle." I believe the prize was 1 M dollars. He withdrew his entry, which was supposed to produce 400 hp and get 100 mpg, when he had to explain how it was done. He claimed he had not patented the engine yet and had to protect his invention. These hp/mpg numbers are approximate as it appeared to be a fraud and I did not save the info. My community was considering backing him though fortunately "someone" questioned him publicly and made him mad. He went elsewhere and all who invested lost money. From what we learned later, he only considered the gasoline it consumed, not the voluminous amounts of more expensive ethanol. Actually with a few modifications all engines can run on ethanol. The price of ethanol and the need to subsidize it with tax dollars prevents it's wide spread use. Also all gasoline today must contain 10% ethanol and since the subsidy ended 12/31/11 that to has caused prices to increase at the pumps.
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Patch |
[QUOTE] Yes of course if a vehicle if a vehicle is efficient enough to make that much power, or has big enough of an engine to have that much you will get good mileage as long as the vehicle is small and light weight enough to only 'breath' on the pedal to make it get going freeway speed, the problem is controlling all the extra power, not all can do this. I once had an old 1/2 ton truck, though I doubt it could have carried that much as it weighed maybe half of what most of it's vintage did, with a 440 cubic inch displacement engine in it, I controlled the speed more often with the brake than the accelerator, but it often got 40 miles per gallon despite of it usually running too rich! |