Posted on 04/27/2009 8:51:24 AM PDT by wk4bush2004
“If a car can reach 1300 miles on a single tank of gas...”
Then the manufacturers will reduce the size of the gas tank for production models of the car. No point in hauling around the extra weight when extra weight means lower mileage and the weight allowance and volume could be used for something else.
The tires are also more expensive for the Pious, they have a special size.
Oh, so they are hypermiling to get this.
While, it isn’t that big of an achievement then.
Neat, but without hypermiling, it would have run out of gas about 300-400 miles ago probably.
IIRC, NASCAR driver Carl Edwards was one of the drivers, but they also had some well known hypermiling guru driving a sting. Probably maxed out at 50 mph too.
My uncle Earl worked for the highway department. He is fond of bermuda shorts and wearing dark socks with sandals.
I don’t think you can add a 120% efficiency increase from hypermiling.I could be wrong though
Assuming this is all true, it is a nice breakthrough that should provide Ford with a real competitive advantage. In the age of “Atlas Shrugged” however, I would expect the government to decide that it is unfair to the UAW and GM if this technology is held exclusively by just one company so Ford will be required to provide all the parts at cost (no profit) to GM in the name of fairness.
I’ve heard the average driver puts 10K miles a year on a car...I could go with filling up only 10 times a year.
Though I think more people will run out of gas because they will forget they have to actually look at the gas gauge...
Will it pull my 11,000 pound boat or 36 foot camper up the Continental Divide? How about actually running from coast to coast, without manipulating the data?
More question marks than exclamations for me.
80 mpg is pretty good. My wife will want one, but I’d rather have a turbo charged diesel that gets 50-60 mpg without having to worry about the electric part.
Well, for one thing ... the design and engineering cycle for a car takes quite a long time. Perhaps Ford could become more nimble, but even best-case development times for a new vehicle are measured in years.
And when you're talking about development of a new engine, that's just going to add time.
The real impetus for this car would have been the incredibly high gas prices last year and, to a lesser extent, the previous year.
I am definitely not average then.
I end up putting a minimum of 20K miles on a car per year.
Kind of a dumb question. Can you think of any midsize car with a 11,000 pound towing capacity?
Okay, so I would only get 70 mpg. I would still buy it.
It makes all SUV’s, heavy pickups and market driven free choice according to need, obsolete. Instead of driving to promote all vehicles produced with increased efficiency, it is selectively forcing all Americans to drive ultra light clown-car sized shoe boxes that self destruct if they hit a small animal on the highway.
I'm less, unless added together. Wife did about 5K last year in her van, I did about 7K on my car.
My ‘96 VW Passat TDI (diesel) wagon (now with 282,000 miles) gets 47-50 MPG highway (cruising at about 70-75 MPH), and 39-40 in city-suburban mixed driving (I use it to drive into NYC to work).
I have gotten 1036 miles on a single tank of fuel, and routinely get 850-900 miles/tank of fuel.
Best car I ever owned.
Fix Or Repair Daily
Found On Road Dead
Isn't that basically how a roller coaster works?
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