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I see Neurocity in one of these

 

heh heh...

When it comes down to it, it really is a matter of simple physics. Use the smallest possible engine you can which means the least energy lost to friction, and it also means keeping the average load on the engine higher which is good, since fuel burned under a higher load (higher pressure) is burned more efficiently. Reduce mass as much as possible, reduce drag both from tires and aerodynamics, etc.

This also broadsides the argument I've seen floated around here that downsized engines aren't the way to go and aren't getting the efficiency they should because "they're working too hard". A lawnmower engine will work pretty hard pushing a 100lb vehicle plus person around a track at 15 mph, but gets 1000+ mpg.

 

BYU eh, those crafty Mormons leading fuel efficiency

 

The world's slowest and most boring gas powered vehicle race?

 

tree huggers nascar.

 

Any A/C? you would roast in the Bubble of death in 10 mins..!

 

A hamster ball would be more fuel efficient

 

to bad nobody in their right mind would sit like that in a real vehicle for the road. A science experiment is what they are doing, not necessarily changing the game.

 

Nope, nothing new, is a bicycle with a tiny engine going really slow

Guess what, take the engine out and paddle it, that give you infiniti MPG...........wow!!

When they can make a car that perform like the Veyron SuperSport and gets 1000 MPG with a MSRP of $10k, then I would be excited. So far all the fuel sipper that get amazing MPG are just very slow car that makes very little power, no power use no fuel............duh.

 

LOL seriously

 

We'll be the last ones standing in a zombie apocalypse, lol.

 

reminds me of when we built cars in physics in high school and used old records as wheels for minimum friction