Comments on: 100 MPG https://blog.speculist.com/energy/100-mpg-1.html Live to see it. Thu, 16 Dec 2021 08:21:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: MDarling https://blog.speculist.com/energy/100-mpg-1.html#comment-2374 MDarling Mon, 09 Apr 2007 12:23:28 +0000 http://localhost/specblog/?p=1122#comment-2374 125?
The goal should be set at 200. I used to get 35+ mpg on a regular basis in a 1984 Rabbit.

And the same technology that moves the Tesla could easily move that same rabbit, sans ICE, at very high speeds (unsafe surely) without giving up much in the way of range or charging requirements.

(Upon further research- the guy witht e HOH motor appears to have patented a perpetual motion design. The idea is not new- and was patented before. At least if the debunkers I found are close. Of course, they probably deny conspiracy theories out of hand.)

]]> By: Stephen Gordon https://blog.speculist.com/energy/100-mpg-1.html#comment-2373 Stephen Gordon Thu, 05 Apr 2007 06:12:59 +0000 http://localhost/specblog/?p=1122#comment-2373 Yeah, I have to agree with Gramarye. I think they set their sites too low at 100 mpg.

Last summer Popular Mechanics had a cover story on how it is quite possible to have a 100 mpg nonweird 4-door with today’s technology.

Maybe they should reissue the challenge at 125 mpg.

]]> By: Gramarye https://blog.speculist.com/energy/100-mpg-1.html#comment-2372 Gramarye Wed, 04 Apr 2007 12:50:14 +0000 http://localhost/specblog/?p=1122#comment-2372 I don’t know about 4-passenger/4-wheel, but the 2-passenger version I believe is actually already a fait accompli; the Tesla Roadster is a fully electric two-seat vehicle built on the Lotus Elise chassis, powered by LiOH batteries, that not only gets 135MPG equivalent but can also do 0-60 in 4.0 (and look a hell of a lot sexier than the lamentable EV1 in doing so). Governor Schwarzenegger summed it up at one of L.A.’s auto event’s: “It’s hot.” Orders for the first 100 sold out by August of last year, and according to Wikipedia, over 350 have been pre-ordered. Estimated delivery is fall of this year.

Martin Eberhard and Elon Musk, Silicon Valley uberbazillionaires, are the brains and money behind the project. This is no fly-by-night operation.

Maybe the Tesla by some technicality doesn’t already meet the standards of the XPrize. In addition, it’s a two-seater, so the four-seater prize would still be up for grabs. Regardless, this seemed like a good place to bring this up because I haven’t seen the Speculist mention anything about Tesla Motors or the Tesla Roadster yet, and it seems like the kind of thing that would be right up the alley of a forum like this.

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