Project Goal
To design and create a different type of plug in hybrid vehicle (lots of Air / little Fossil Fuel) that closely replicates today's state of the art automobile and yet exceeds at least 100 MPG under real world conditions, by producing the highest energy efficiency possible using exsiting technologies.
In some places, hypermiling contests have been held to see who can get the highest MPG on a selected course with already existing cars built in the last 10 years!
The most recent Maximum Fuel Economy contest was held in Elkhart, Indiana at the Fuel Economy World Championships where world records for the Honda Insight (213 mpg Round Trip), Toyota Prius (136 mpg Round Trip) and the Ford Escape Hybrid (76 mpg Round Trip) were achieved.
Do we really need to have cars averaging only around 24 MPG??