When do you think we will see the first true 100 mile per gallon car on the world market?

Question

(The 2009 Toyota Prius is supposed to get 80 mpg from what I hear).

Answer 1

There have been several concept cars out there that will do that - it's just that these cars use technologies that have been prohibitively expensive. There's no conspiracy out there to cover up some miracle zillion mpg carburetor (have you ever wondered why there's so few rumors about a fuel injector that can pull off the same mileage, even though EFI cars get much better mileage?) If there was a way to make a car get 100 mpg that had no real trade-offs and only added a few hundred, no Arab sheik could afford a bribe big enough to compare to the profits a car company could rake in by selling such a thing.

The pieces out there already exist - ultra-light materials, direct injected diesel engines, hybrid drivetrains, etc. The trouble is bringing down the price of all the necessary technology to the point that it's commercially viable. Nobody's going to spend $200,000 on a car just to double its mileage. My prediction? Expect it to take about 20 years. However, this may not happen if battery technology improves to the point that electric cars become practical. If that happens, we can expect to hear rumors of how the electrical power industry conspiracy killed the technology to build a 200 mpg car.

Answer 2

I watched a program on the Discovery channel or the Learniing channel... forget which but basically they said that we have the technology to build cars that will last a million miles and get 100 mpg. The costs of course are more, but they aren't THAT much more. The problem is that if they actually built those cars, it would put soooo many people out of work. Mechanics, smog shops, gas stations, etc. would all be hurting.

Answer 3

When we stop using internal combustion motors. Fuel is every ineffecent. you only use 60 % of it as energy the rest is heat and waste. Now you can get more miles buy turning the engine off and allowing another source to drive the car but what it boils down to is if the motor ran as often as a normal car would run you MPG would still be around 30 MPG.

Answer 4

Not likely to happen...

The 100 MPG Carburetors have been available and several different versions were patented and verified with working prototypes and everything...

Pogue did one, Fisher also did one....

One of these was circa late 1930's to early 1940's...

At that time the inventer had contacted Ford to come out and witness his invention in action...

A model A was used (Model A's were made from 1928 to 1931)..

first the car was started on a nearly empty fuel tank and driven until it ran dry and stalled due to a lack of fuel...

then the original carburetor was removed and the inventor installed his and added a only 1 Quart of Gasoline to the dry tank...

then the car was started and immediately driven with the one of the 2 Ford Executives in the passenger seat... The model A ran 26.9 miles after starting out on only 1 Quart of fuel...

remeber your math here... there are 4 Quarts to equal 1 Gallon...

hance 4 quarts X 26.9 Miles = 107.6 Miles per gallon which is solidly over 100 MPG!!

So you ask what happened to these men and their prize inventions???

Here is actually what happened in this instance...

He was approached by either one of the Automotive companinies or the Arabs or a colaborative action of both...

it was unspecified in his statement of the facts... But what is of importance here is what he was told...

and this is why these carburetors were never released and manufactured for the hands of the public...

He was told here is an offer you shouldn't refuse for a large sum of money (amount not specified due to confidentiality agreement etc.)...

if he refused he was told that one by one all his family mnembers would be paraded in front of him and executed before his very eyes...

He was told what he could and couldn't talk about to do with this matter, he was also told he could spoend or use his money anyway he wanted...

i.e. he could share it with his family if he chose of not share it with him if he chose that etc. they didn't care...

he was allowed to tell people his idea/invention worked, diclose parts theroy and etc. but couldn't build them one etc or assist in production etc.

he was to take the money and use it to be happy and have a good life

he disapeared circa 1940 and wasn't found again until circa 1974 or about that in a nursing home in th Mid West... where the reporter was able to get the above info...

he refused still to talk about the forbidden stuff and the amount of settlement though now in his 80's

I also witnessed in the mid 70's at about 13 yrs a inventor who was secreting himself in the hills of Backcountry

Idaho who had developed an atomic engine which burned atoms... thats right it would burn leaves trash etc...

kind of like back to the future... he was currently on the run because the only oil the engine used was at the bearing saddles it was mounted in the chassis thru...

it would turn 20,000 rpms forward or backward thru a pull of a ever like a automatic trans works when going into reverse

he was running from the arabs because they didn't want him cutting into their profits by reducing the USA's oil Cioncumption so drastically..

FYI the Prius is a Hybrid vehicle meaning it uses both gas and other for propulsion so the 80 MPG per se doesn not reflect the mileage from just running the gas out of it only but also expeling the energy from its alternative sourc too for a combined MPG of 80...

do you understand this?

Long Story short neither the car Companies nor the Arabs want a 100 MPG vehicle

Walt

Answer 5

when the arabs can't afford to buy the car manufacturers future technology with regards to fuel efficiency anymore