Green Options » races http://greenoptions.com/tag/races Posts tagged 'races' Tue, 11 Mar 2008 20:27:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en 2008 Eco-Marathon Car Gets 7,148 MPG http://gas2.org/2008/03/11/2008-eco-marathon-car-gets-7148-mpg/ http://gas2.org/2008/03/11/2008-eco-marathon-car-gets-7148-mpg/#comments Tue, 11 Mar 2008 20:27:50 +0000 Clayton B. Cornell http://gas2.org/2008/03/11/2008-eco-marathon-car-gets-7148-mpg/ eco car, fuel economy

Just to mix things up a bit, take a look at this car from the 2008 Eco-Marathon, registering at a whopping 7,148 MPG (via Autopia):

Looking like one of those space caskets from Star Trek, the single-seat racer you see to the left, constructed by a team from the French technical school St. Joseph La Joliverie and dubbed the Microjoule, traveled an amazing 7,148 miles on a single gallon of fuel (in other words, almost ten miles per teaspoon).

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