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Improve my gas mileage! If you listen closely, you can hear that demand echo through time since the start of the industrial age. Nearly 100 years have gone by trying to figure out the best way to do it.
Although gas mileage devices have nearly doubled the actual mileage most cars get in the last 75 years, progress on this front has never been slower. Looking back over the last 20 years or so you will see very little improvement.
Well, time to enter the Auto X Prize competition which is being sponsored the the Progressive auto insurance Co. The first 100 mpg car is the goal and the contest was officially launched in March and you can still get in.
Up for grabs is a Whopping $10 million dollar prize and the first individual or group of individuals who can demonstrate 100mgp in a cross-country race, wins the cash.
If you are up for the game, the competition is scheduled to being in 2009. So, if you think you can “improve my gas mileage” don’t just sit there, get to building!
The questions are, do you think you have what it takes? What exactly are the rules to win the cash and what is the goals that need to be accomplished?
To start with, the goals are fairly simple. We need to get off our dependence on foriegn oil. We need cars that are totally efficient and we need them to be environmentally responsible. Bottom line? Improve my gas mileage!
The winning car will demonstrate an easy concept and something that is simple to understand. Something along the line of a car that you and I could actually work on. Is that even possible now days?
The benefits of this car need to be global in definition. So, on those terms, anyone from anywhere can compete in this race. It doesn’t matter where you reside, bring your brains!
The winning car must also be a car that everyone can purchase. Concept cars or idea cars are not allowed. It’s got to be ready for production.
There are other rules such as independent and non-partisan contestants, an understanding of the emissions, performance, fuel efficiency, ect.
Don’t let those things snag you. If you can build it and race it and it can go to manufacturing then all the shade tree mechanics need to get into this thing.
Imagine the implications of such a contest not only for those who might win but for the entire world at large!
Are you thinking how life could change for you and the world in general as this technology reaches into other industries as well. Things would change on a global scale.
There is a ton of info on this and cars with the best gas mileage if you know where to start looking. Check it out and who knows! Maybe you will be the one to give us all a gas mileage improvement we have all been waiting for!
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