Originally Posted By: expat
Originally Posted By: Cujet
Mankind has produced all manner of efficient, small, 3 wheel cars. Some with high compression engines and significant overdrive ratio's. None have achieve even half of the 84MPG highway claimed by the Elio. So there must be some really good tech happening there...
Really!
This mpg is already possible from production 4 wheel (non electric) TDI cars.
Prototype VW's claim to GREATLY exceed this.
Yes, there are some very cool 4 wheel cars with diesels that achieve excellent MPG. I had forgotten about the various VW diesels.
Rather, I was thinking about past production cars with gas engines. Such as the car I pictured. They did achieve over 80MPG in a 35MPH cruise, but at 70MPH, the MPG dropped markedly, into the 40's.
Originally Posted By: Cujet
Mankind has produced all manner of efficient, small, 3 wheel cars. Some with high compression engines and significant overdrive ratio's. None have achieve even half of the 84MPG highway claimed by the Elio. So there must be some really good tech happening there...
Really!
This mpg is already possible from production 4 wheel (non electric) TDI cars.
Prototype VW's claim to GREATLY exceed this.
Yes, there are some very cool 4 wheel cars with diesels that achieve excellent MPG. I had forgotten about the various VW diesels.
Rather, I was thinking about past production cars with gas engines. Such as the car I pictured. They did achieve over 80MPG in a 35MPH cruise, but at 70MPH, the MPG dropped markedly, into the 40's.
