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" Hydrogen-Fueled Vehicle Achieves 12,665 MPG on Test Track
Posted: 07/11/2005
There is a new fuel economy world record of 12,665 mpg (5,385 kilometers per liter), recently set by students from the Federal Polytechnical School of Zurich. The team set the new world record in a hydrogen fuel cell vehicle on a track in France as part of the Shell Eco-marathon. Called the PAC-Car II, the diminutive vehicle weighs only 66 pounds and carries one driver in a prone position. To qualify for the record, the car had to travel just under 13 miles on a test track while maintaining an average speed of at least 18.6 miles per hour (30 kilometers per hour), a feat that the Swiss team achieved while using only 1.02 grams of hydrogen. The record 12,665 mpg is based on converting that hydrogen to its equivalent in 95-octane gasoline. As pointed out by the Swiss team, with that fuel efficiency a car would need only 2 gallons of gasoline to travel around the globe. See the Federal Polytechnical School of Zurich's PAC-Car II Web site for more information."
Hydrogen fuel is the way to go.....
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Originally posted by contour_phoenix_when:
Hydrogen fuel is the way to go....
Prob not because hydrogen costs more energy to produce than gasoline, and the process to produce it creates just as much or more pollution as burning a similar amount of gas.
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Holy crap. Now that is good mileage. Too bad they can't do that soley w/ a gallon of gas, w/o anything else helping it. Then $3.60 a gallon for gas wouldn't seem too bad if you could drive a whole year on it. 
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Originally posted by Matt R:
Holy crap. Now that is good mileage. Too bad they can't do that soley w/ a gallon of gas, w/o anything else helping it. Then $3.60 a gallon for gas wouldn't seem too bad if you could drive a whole year on it.
If your car only weighed 66 lbs and you didn't exceed 18mph, I am guessing you could get pretty damn far on 1 gallon of gas
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if you said 12.665, I was going to say my truck...
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Notice it only says "mpg". Miles per.... Gallon of what? A gallon of battery fluid will net you better "mpg" in an electric car.  Mark
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Also, add a few thousand pounds to that, as well as a heavy foot.  Still not an overnight project, but it is something in the right direction, imo.
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Originally posted by Y2KSVT:
Notice it only says "mpg". Miles per.... Gallon of what?
A gallon of battery fluid will net you better "mpg" in an electric car.
Mark
"The record 12,665 mpg is based on converting that hydrogen to its equivalent in 95-octane gasoline."
What I'm interested in is what method they used to do the "conversion".
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