Very cool car, very poor quality article. It reads like it was written by a syndication algorithm that throws in weirdly subjective statements at the end of every paragraph.<p>Here's a slightly better one with a video: <a href="http://wonderfulengineering.com/new-car-designed-by-french-students-can-do-2072-miles-on-a-single-litre-of-fuel/" rel="nofollow">http://wonderfulengineering.com/new-car-designed-by-french-s...</a>
A nice engineering project, sure. But it has nothing to do with cars. They only thing that their results show is that you can get vastly different results for vastly different constraints and requirements.
Here are the detailed results of the contest (and yes, the original results are in km/l): <a href="http://s08.static-shell.com/content/dam/shell-new/local/corporate/ecomarathon/downloads/pdf/europe/2014-results/sem-europe-2014-results-prototype-gasoline-220514.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://s08.static-shell.com/content/dam/shell-new/local/corp...</a>
Amazing. Anyone has an idea what kind of bearings used in the wheels? The <i>if you would spin its wheel, it would not stop spinning for almost 2 miles</i>, whatever that actually means, makes it sound like they are something special.<p>Also somewhat funny how such competitions are usually sponsored by fossil fuel companies. It's like they are preparing for the future with a business model idea like 'so, within x years there's going to be not enough fuel for the cars. Prices will skyrocket. Hmm, better make some cars that don't use a lot of fuel so we can stretch it to the fullest'. Perfectly understandable from an economic point of view, but would't research into alternative, cleaner mobility a better solution for <i>everyone</i> in the long run?
This one has always intrigued me, especially the modifications done to get it to perform that well:<p><a href="http://www.59fiattestcar.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.59fiattestcar.com/</a>