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High Fuel Efficiency cars

This was my favorite, so I took a few pictures. It reminded me of a really old Porsche. Turns out, it's modled after 1930's era sports cars. It looked like fiberglass construction over foam.
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It's really long. It would be hard to find a long enough parking place for it at the grocery store. But it seats 4 and has a huge trunk.
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Home made window sticker
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This one had no information placard, but looked cool.
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I'm going to assume that the 98 is its gas mileage.
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This car was under a cover, so we have the informational placard only.
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I hope this wasn't too many images, but I figured a few people would find them interesting.

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Originally Posted by glatt (Post 682808)

I hope this wasn't too many images, but I figured a few people would find them interesting.

Yup. Definitely.

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I hope this wasn't too many images, but I figured a few people would find them interesting.

nope - YUP!!! Very cool.

Why does that one have such a long trunk though. That killed it for me.

Woo Hoo, West Philly.

Black.......... check
Duct tape.... check

I went back over there during lunch. It turns out this was the awards ceremony to award $10 Million in prizes to 4 different categories.

One of the cars earlier had no information with it earlier. I got the handout sheet at lunch. This was one of the winners. $2.5M. It has an engine and runs on ethanol for a typical car range and gets 103 MPGe. It looks funny, but it's basically a normal car. Seats four. Has a trunk. And a long range. Be nice if it took unleaded though.

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This one was covered up when I was here before. I'd seen other products by this same company years ago, but this one is really efficient. It's a basically a battery powered enclosed motocycle. This is another winner. $2.5M.

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This is a 3rd winner, but I don't know anything about them because they had no information posted. Looks like you can buy one of these though.

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This was one of the cars that didn't win.
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And then it was over. People started hopping in to these cars and driving away. This car was covered before.

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That Edison2 seats four? :eek: They must be very good friends.

Damn glatt you never said that Pelosi was the one giving out the awards. Heck with enough warning I could have driven down to say hi to her. ;)

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Pelosi ~ addressed an X Prize awards ceremony honoring the winners of a contest to build a safe car that gets at least 100 miles per gallon.

:eek: I guess I missed that. I wasn't there for the actual ceremony.

Very cool glatt. I'm surprised how heavy some of those little cars are - over 3,000 lbs. I wonder if that's due to batteries.

Some of them are really nice looking but that orange one looks like a sardine can. I would love to get 200 mpg. * imagine*