Mustang De 400 Cp, 0-100 In 3 Secunde

[VAXXi]

http://www.kmbc.com/automotive/print/16768626/detail.html

 

Engineer Gets 110 MPG Out Of '87 Mustang

 

Doug Pelmear said he isn't toying with the engine of 1987 Ford Mustang for the money.

 

The engineer's tinkering, however, could earn him $10 million and save him plenty more in gas money.

 

Pelmear, who lives in Napoleon, Ohio, has tweaked his Mustang to get 110 mpg, making the engine nearly five times as efficient as a traditional gas engine, he told the Toledo Blade newspaper.

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"We redesigned a lot of different things on the [engine] block," Pelmear told the paper. "It's still a rod-and-piston engine; it just has a lot more electronics on it."

 

Traditional gas engines operate at 8 to 10 percent, efficiency, while the engine on the Mustang, he said, is at 38 percent efficiency.

 

He said he could greatly increase even that number if his car used traditional gasoline instead of a mix of gas and 85 percent ethanol.

 

Pelmear entered his car to win the the $10 million Progressive Automotive X Prize: a race to find an affordable, marketable automobile that gets at least 100 miles per gallon.

 

"I'm an optimist, and I think people need to know there is hope out there," Pelmear told the Toledo Blade. "That's why I decided to enter the X Prize race. I could have sold this [technology] off, but then people might not have seen it.

 

Pelmear told television station WNWO that the car hasn't traded power for miles per gallon. Pelmear said the car has 400 horsepower, goes well over 100 mph and can go from zero to 60 mph in three seconds.

 

"This will bring back the automotive industry when they can sell trucks and SUVs and the models that are almost dead at this time," he told WNWO.

 

Functioneaza deci pe gaz si 85% etanol, si consuma cam 2-3 litri (110 mpg = 2,1 litri la suta de km). Deci ce sa inteleg ... ca se poate, daca se vrea?

[BogdanG]

A dreacu limba engleza asta, gas=benzina. Deci merge pe benzina+etanol

[EM!L]

Deci ce sa inteleg ... ca se poate, daca se vrea?

 

Numai ca, dupa parerea mea, interesele sunt prea mari ca sa nu se produca in serie asa ceva. Poate in viitor, cine stie...

[rich1974]

interesele sunt mari in europa unde statul castiga foarte multi bani din vanzarea benzinei. in america statul nu castiga mare lucru fiindca accizele sunt mult mai mici!

[mr_]

Nu scrie nicaieri la ce viteza a scos consumul ala. Daca e la 30km/h nu e nimic deosebit. Iar nenea ala care se lauda in articol a sarit peste aspectul asta, care mie unuia mi se pare esential. Insa in orice caz, nu a inventat apa calda... inca.

 

Exista o "cursa" organizata de shell, "shell eco marathon" in care unele prototipuri ajung sa faca peste 3000km cu un litru! In 2008 masina unui liceu din beirut a facut vreo 600km cu un litru. Insa viteza medie este de (minim) 23km/h. Ai dracu' petrolistii astia, se dau singuri de gol ca se poate... . Cel putin astia sunt complet idioti... au lansat intrecerea asta in 1939

 

Insa de la prototipuri care se taraie pe circuite pana la masini care sa mearga pe autostrazi sau printre semafoare, cu sacii de cartofi in portbagaj si clima pusa mai e... iar asta nu are nici o legatura cu conspiratia mondiala a petrolistilor.

Edited July 6, 2008 by mr_