Big Oil conspiracy! 376 mpg Opel uncovered!
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Some folks at Shell Oil Co. wrote “Fuel Economy of the Gasoline Engine” (ISBN 0-470-99132-1); it was published by John Wiley & Sons, New York, in 1977. On page 42 Shell Oil quotes the President of General Motors, he, in 1929, predicted 80 MPG by 1939. Between pages 221 and 223 Shell writes of their achievements: 49.73 MPG around 1939; 149.95 MPG with a 1947 Studebaker in 1949; 244.35 MPG with a 1959 Fiat 600 in 1968; 376.59 MPG with a 1959 Opel in 1973. The Library of Congress (LOC), in September 1990, did not have a copy of this book. It was missing from the files. I bought my copy from Maryland Book Exchange around 1980 after a professor informed me that it was used as an engineering text at the University of West Virginia. VPI published a paper, March 1979, concerning maximum achievable fuel economy. This paper has several charts illustrating achievable and impossible fuel economy. About 1980 I contacted the author concerning conflicts between the paper and documented achieved “impossible” mpg. The author said, “I will get back to you.” I am still waiting for his response.
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Some folks at Shell Oil Co. wrote “Fuel Economy of the Gasoline Engine” (ISBN 0-470-99132-1); it was published by John Wiley & Sons, New York, in 1977. On page 42 Shell Oil quotes the President of General Motors, he, in 1929, predicted 80 MPG by 1939. Between pages 221 and 223 Shell writes of their achievements: 49.73 MPG around 1939; 149.95 MPG with a 1947 Studebaker in 1949; 244.35 MPG with a 1959 Fiat 600 in 1968; 376.59 MPG with a 1959 Opel in 1973. The Library of Congress (LOC), in September 1990, did not have a copy of this book. It was missing from the files. I bought my copy from Maryland Book Exchange around 1980 after a professor informed me that it was used as an engineering text at the University of West Virginia. VPI published a paper, March 1979, concerning maximum achievable fuel economy. This paper has several charts illustrating achievable and impossible fuel economy. About 1980 I contacted the author concerning conflicts between the paper and documented achieved “impossible” mpg. The author said, “I will get back to you.” I am still waiting for his response.
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mpg is relevant to speed...
we could make a car that got 500 mpg...but it would move at an INCREDIBLY slow speed..
we could make a car that got 500 mpg...but it would move at an INCREDIBLY slow speed..
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On that show future cars discovery did there was an open race car that averaged a speed of like 14X.XX mph with a mpg that wsa damn near the same as the speed. I cant remember exacts, maybe someone else can... So it can be done
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gasoline has a massive amount of energy, like 50KJ/mole - as it is now, mainstream automotive technology harnesses 10-15KJ/mole of that energy as kinetic force. the rest is heat and chemical conversion.
Imagine that, for every $40 tank of gas you buy, you actually only use 8$ of it driving.
of course there are methods of harnessing more of that energy but they are pricey and why bother when we poor chums will take the garbage they sell now...
Imagine that, for every $40 tank of gas you buy, you actually only use 8$ of it driving.
of course there are methods of harnessing more of that energy but they are pricey and why bother when we poor chums will take the garbage they sell now...
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