300 mpg Volkswagen

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Originally Posted by Irving

So is this the real deal? This article is saturated with anti-oil profits BS. I didn't bother to find a better article. I'm just interested if anyone knows more about the car.

http://thespiritscience.net/2014/05/...too-efficient/

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I'm just not going to take an automobile article seriously that is written by somebody named "Steven Bancarz"

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Originally Posted by Bailey Guns

People like to talk about "big oil" companies as if they're the enemy. They're not. They also aren't the reason gas prices are high. The government at various levels and just the cost of purchasing the oil that's fresh out of the ground are responsible for the bulk of the cost. Profits to oil companies probably account for the smallest percentage of the price of a gallon of gas.

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**COUGH** MY NUMBER 1 **COUGH**

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Originally Posted by Irving

Saw that in the comments. I'm curious about the mileage though. Is it legit?

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So far as I can tell, it is, but remember it's a diesel-electric hybrid, so it's bound to get good mileage, especially if you include mileage for the car being run in electric-only mode.

Depending on how you run the stats, even the Chevy Volt gets something like 200 mpg.

Remember too it has like 31 hp. In that aspect, it's much like the Post-War mini/micro car designs that resulted in low double digit hp lightweight designs like the Deuxcheveaux (9-17), just with updated materials and new hybrid/battery technologies to draw from.

Bottom line, it's a pig with lipstick but the leftists are hoping they can use enough lipstick to keep pushing the Europeanization of America.

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Originally Posted by TheBelly

Ever want to wonder why we're not doing better as far as MPG and why we're not actively getting away from fossil fuels? Here's two reasons:

1).gov taxes on a gallon of gas are quite high when you compare them to how much an oil company would make it profit. IIRC, it's somewhere in the neighborhood of 18 cents/gallon of tax and 4 cents/gallon of profit.

2) Americans love our SUVs. We love our huge trucks. They don't get great mileage.

with Americans consuming roughly 368 million gallons of gas every day, that comes out to over $66million EVERY DAY for the US government. There's no way they're going to stop that flow of cash.

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For what it's worth, the gas tax is a pretty reasonable thing, at least in theory.

Money from the gas tax is supposed to go to construction and maintenance of transportation infrastructure, and there's a pretty reasonable case to be made that the more fuel you use, the more you're probably driving, the more wear and tear you're causing to the roads.

If you drive very little, you pay very little in taxes. Drive a lot, pay more. As far as taxes go, it seems more equitable than most.

Even if it were to make it here, it'd end up crushed like all those Honda electric vehicles in the 80's... Who killed the electric car?

300mpg vw

why because most of its time is spent on the back of a tow truck

It's a cool concept. My wife has had three VWs over the years and her current version is a VW Sportwagen TDI. It gets 33mpg around town and upwards of 40+ on the highway. It replaced a 3/4 suburban that got 10mpg downhill. While we loved the sub, what we were paying in gas was more than a new car payment and fuel every month plus it's got 100% covered maintenance.

While I like trucks and SUVs there is some practicality with the small diesels. Kicking around the idea of replacing my daily driver with a Ram 1500 Eco Diesel next year.

The other argument is that hybrids get better mileage than diesels and are pretty reliable to boot.

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Originally Posted by bogie

The inventor will be assassinated in short order.

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Originally Posted by ray1970

I'm holding out for something that runs off water.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82206qlXrzs

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley...ater_fuel_cell