[quote]Volkswagen Resurrects Plan for 200±MPG Small Car
WOLFSBURG, Germany — The head of the Volkswagen Group’s supervisory board, Ferdinand Piëch, used celebrations surrounding his 70th birthday over the weekend to point at the resurrection of plans for a new super-economical small Volkswagen.
In an interview with the Braunschweiger Zeitung newspaper, Piëch said the production of a car capable of traveling 100 kilometers on just one liter of fuel (the equivalent of 235 miles per U.S. gallon) is now achievable, citing advances in materials and general reductions in costs.
What this means to you: When Piëch proposed a 1,001-hp, 8.0-liter, 16-cylinder Bugatti-badged supercar capable of 252 miles per hour, few took him seriously. A 235-mpg car appears equally impossible. But no one’s laughing this time around. edmunds.com/insideline/do/Ne … d=120448#3[/quote]
I personally believe the technology has been here for a long time that would enable someone to come up with a more economical car. It’s about time the world started trying harder now the oil is more difficult to obtain. We’re just lazy really.
Free energy is just around the corner too. There’s also engines developed that run on water - though the working prototype I saw uses electrolysed water (or ionised or something) - not just water from the tap. Not yet~
There is a company in Ireland, called Steorn, that claims to have developed free energy batteries. They have not yet released the product yet, as it’s supposedly still undergoing testing to ‘prove’ it and test it’s stability. Very interesting, but there is still the chance that it’s a hoax.
They have also developed nano-generators, which can utilize things on the nano scale to create power just from vibrations etc. - but generation levels per size are not quite useful yet, but it is promising to be a good power source for nano-tech. Generate power from the flow of your blood to power those little nano-bots in your body~
As I wrote in that thread, I’m quite skeptical about the water-fueled engines. To me, the wiki links seem more convincing than the various pro-water fuelling sites.
steady on with the enthusiasm for steorn… the world is waiting till a supposed July release of the ‘independent’ panel investigation into their claims. and that’s all they are so far: claims.
it is hard to get past the limits of thermodynamics.
the water engine is not at all free energy: electrolysis takes energy to break the ater bonds, and releases it back when hydrogen is burnt.
now, using solar power to generate the hydrogen is the sensible option, and it’s basically free once the cost of the plant is covered, but it is not free energy in any technical cost of the word, just in the sense that it costs you no money: you’re still using the sun’s energy.
oh, isn’t this the alternative vehicles thread? sorry joe…
But I think an oversized GT wing, 22" chromies on the front, electronic BOV and two massive subs in the boot - she’ll be right… Oh! Don’t forget the neons!
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