British Inventor Unveils 8000 MPG Car

[truthpusher]

http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7003538016

British Inventor Unveils 8000 MPG Car

May 12, 2006 2:18 p.m. EST

Julie Farby - All Headline News Staff Writer

London, England (AHN)—A British inventor unveils the world's most fuel-efficient vehicle, a three-wheel “TeamGreen” car capable of doing 8,000 miles to the gallon.

The 45-year-old inventor, Andy Green, from the University of Bath, built his budget eco-motor for just £2,000, and will be the sole British contender for the title of the world's most fuel-economic car in a global competition being held later this month.

It has taken Mr. Green more than two years to design and build the car, which will be the fourth eco-vehicle he has built. He holds the British record for fuel-efficiency, with 6,603 miles to the gallon in a previous car.

According to the report, the new vehicle is powered by a single cylinder four-stroke engine with a capacity of just 35cc and runs with a special management system incorporating fuel injection.

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link: http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7003538016

[baldguy]

1. not a whole lot of truck space.

http://www.teamgreen.org.uk/

[alfredo]

11. Andy Green is not new to high

performance cars. He's the one who drove this machine.



In action

[DS1]

13. I have a hard time believing it's the same guy

The one who drove the rocket car was an RAF pilot

[alfredo]

15. Same age.

But you may be right.

[jpak]

17. Shriners want!

:evilgrin:

[wordpix2]

29. most of us don't need truck space to get to work and back

[WhiteTara]

2. no room for the baby car seat

that might make Britney happy.

[acmavm]

3. 8000 mpg and built for 2000 pounds (approx. 5000 dollars?). Not if

General Motors gets its hands on it.

Wonder if this is true? Wonder how many people can it carry?

The article didn't cover much.

[acmavm]

Is that picture really what they're talking about?

[DrDebug]

4. Awesome, however 33 cc is not the best car for the highway

This 'car' has a 33cc engine as well:

[Lithos]

5. Wonder if it's got enough torque

To make it up a hill.

[Cronus Protagonist]

20. It's probably a push-starter

I doubt it would have enough torque to drive into a 5 mph headwind.




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[htuttle]

21. It might have enough torque if it has a 16-speed transmission.

That would be a lot of gears to shift through, though.

[muriel_volestrangler]

27. Looking at the rules for this year's competition

it must be able to start without external assistance, and must complete a 25km course at an average of 30 km/h. The driver must weigh at least 50kg (and I assume there mustn't be any motive power from the driver, though I admit I didn't notice that in a quick look at the rules). The course is round a (flat) track, so winds should average out (though a tailwind when starting would help, I suppose).

[OKIsItJustMe]

6. More details...

http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=29&art_id=qw1147440242337B216

Man invents 'world's most fuel-efficient car'

London - A British inventor on Friday unveiled a car he claims is the world's most fuel efficient - capable of doing 12 875km per 4,5 litres (about 2 861km per litre).

Andy Green, 45, spent just £2 000 (R23 360) over two years creating the three-wheeled contraption in his spare time.

The car, named "TeamGreen", is 3,1m long and a mere 0,6m wide, weighing just 30kg.

"It's a labour of love," said Green, a technician in the mechanical engineering department of Bath University, south-west England.

"I think the car is important because it is a reminder to us all that the way to achieve fuel-savings is to drive lighter cars - it's the weight of this car that is the main reason for its fuel-efficiency," he said.

Green's car is powered by a single cylinder four-stroke engine with a capacity of just 35cc.

It will be the only British entry in a global competition in France later this month to decide the world's most fuel-economic car.

The winner of the Shell Eco-Marathon championships will be the car that runs the longest on an average speed of 30km/h.

Two women, chosen for their slight frames, have been selected to drive the Briton's invention for the three-day event.

Green is already a seasoned inventor of environmentally friendly cars, of which "TeamGreen" is his fourth.

He holds the British record for fuel-efficiency, having achieved 6 603 miles to the gallon in one of his previous cars.

[OKIsItJustMe]

7. Still more details

http://news.scotsman.com/scitech.cfm?id=714682006

Inventor says his car can do 8,000 miles to the gallon

RUSSELL JACKSON

A BRITISH inventor claims he has built the world's most fuel-efficient car - which does a staggering 8,000 miles per gallon.

The thrifty three-wheeler will cover ten miles on just one teaspoon of unleaded fuel. Inventor Andy Green built the ten-foot-long vehicle, called Team Green, in his spare time for just £2,000 to compete for the world fuel-efficiency title.

It is powered by a tiny 35cc single-cylinder engine, but is capable of reaching 60mph because it stands just 60cm high and is super-aerodynamic.

The carbon fibre car weighs just 30kg, 2 per cent of the average car, and can travel for 60 miles on a full tank of 36 millilitres - or six teaspoons - of petrol.

Mr Green, 45, built the vehicle by himself in his university workshop for the Shell Eco-Marathon event in southern France later this month. He is the only British competitor among 250 teams from around the world who are competing for the title of the world's most efficient motor.

[wordpix2]

30. "can travel for 60 miles on a full tank of 36 millilitres or six teaspoons

of petrol."
YEAH!!!:bounce:

[Lefty-Taylor]

8. You better watch your back, Mr. Green ...

... because ExxonMobil and the rest of the oil companies will be tailing you. I wrote an article about some of the shenanigans the auto-oil crooks did in the mid-20th Century (published by Public Citizen magazine in the mid-90s called "The Great Smog Conspiracy"). They're evil when it comes to protecting their interests. Look what they tried to do to Ralph Nader for "Unsafe at Any Speed" (please no anti-Nader rants).

So Mr. Green, even though your car is still raw, so to speak, don't fly in any small planes.

[DrDebug]

10. Welcome to DU. That's why Shell is doing the organisation

It means that they can always hide the car afterwards ;)

:toast:

[Lefty-Taylor]

12. Shell will hide it or destroy it, Green and his research ...

(thanks for the "welcome" -- although I've been on DU for several years, under a different name.)

[muriel_volestrangler]

23. That would account for this being the 30th year of the event

http://www.shell.com/home/Framework?siteId=eco-marathon-en&FC2=/eco-marathon-en/html/iwgen/sem_about/history/zzz_lhn.html&FC3=/eco-marathon-en/html/iwgen/sem_about/history/sem_about_history.html

and the way this is being publicised in newspapers. Shell are obviously masters at hiding things.

[gristy]

9. "car"

As soon as that "thing" is called a car, the author and inventor are both lying. There is no way in any sense of the word that thing can be called a "car".

[alfredo]

14. It's more a car than bush is a president.

[truthpusher]

16. Dictionary.com

Car references automobile...

au·to·mo·bile ( P ) Pronunciation Key (ôt-m-bl, -mbl)
n.

A self-propelled passenger vehicle that usually has four wheels and an internal-combustion engine, used for land transport. Also called motorcar.

[think4yourself]

19. Maybe we need to update that dictionary!

:)

[simonm]

22. Scalability

It has a special management system incorporating fuel injection. If it can be scaled up, then we have something realistic.

[eppur_se_muova]

18. Convergent evolution--looks a lot like speed-record human-powered vehicles

http://www.pacifier.com/~jwills/vector/vector.htm

[Gregorian]

24. Great idea. But stupid.

The more we refine this concept of the car, the more we approach the bicycle. So let's assume we have this thing all built and mass produced. I have one up on it- my vehicle gets infinite mileage, AND it keeps you in shape.
And how do you go grocery shopping? And how do I pull my tailer and backhoe? Or what about that 2.7 kids?

Eventually people will begin to realize that it's not the vehicle. It's the number of people who are moving around. And when we realize that, we can begin to solve the problem. Until then, we're just polishing everything around the problem.

Actually, it's the number of people combined with how they are using energy. But beyond a certain number, the way they use energy becomes overridden by that number. If there were only a million people on the planet, they could do just about anything, short of having their own personal nuclear reactor. Seven billion can almost use no energy, and end up in trouble. There are limits. And that is what modern society refuses to address.

[0rganism]

25. so use a 4-cylinder engine, add another wheel + more passenger space...

...and we'd be looking at something very marketable indeed. Even if these changes reduced the efficiency by an order of magnitude, I'd happily consider any compact commuter car that got 500MPG, and I doubt I'm the only one.

Holding a monumental fuel efficiency record is nice, but we really have to move these vehicles into garages across the world ASAP to really make a difference.

[poverlay]

28. My feelings exactly. I coat-tail organism! n/t

[Blue_Tires]

26. ttt n/t