By Leslie Berliant •
April 27, 2009
An environmentalist praising an American car maker and a NASCAR driver in the same post? Fasten your seatbelts!
On Monday, a team of drivers, including
hypermiler Wayne Gerdes and NASCAR driver
Carl Edwards successfully completed the 1000 mile challenge, taking a
2010 Ford Fusion Hybrid 1005 miles on less than a single tank of gas. (Full disclosure time, my company, BLU MOON Group, does some work with Carl Edwards, but we weren’t involved in this event.) The 1000 mile challenge was also a fundraising event for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. Here’s the best part, though; they made it over 1000 miles with almost 1/3 tank of gas remaining and achieved more than 80 miles per gallon from the same Fusion Hybrid that you or I can buy. Pretty cool, right?
