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justdrew
Interactive musings from a creative technophile
Cool fuel efficiency project from our friends @ TopGear
If you’ve ever watched the show, you know the producers usually put the three hosts through a variety of vehicular-themed challenges (such as one when on tour in the deep south, USA where they each bought a car for under $1,000 and had to drive from Miami to New Orleans- leading to an unforgettable scene where they had to abort a tongue-in-cheek attempt to get eachother arrested or killed by painting offensive slogans on the others’ car… aborted as soon as they realized American southerners don’t do tongue-in-cheek and actually would physically attack someone for driving a car with offensive graffiti on it… whadda country).
This challenge, though is a much nobler one. (Though in fairness to the previous reference, when they arrived in N.O. instead of selling the cars as part of the challenge, they gave them away to hurricane Katrina survivors).
The latest project is to build a highly fuel-efficient vehicle for under $7,000– less than the price of a high-quality hybrid car battery.
Read the article on the Top Gear (USA) site.