Ernie Fernandez, owner of the Lolo Community Garage, says a simple and relatively inexpensive hydrogen booster installed on his 1965 Ford Galaxy has increased mileage from 14 miles per gallon to around 40 mpg. “You can feel the performance – you can hear the performance,” Fernandez says.
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There’s something to be said about a car that gets 100 miles per gallon and floats. We’re still trying to figure out what exactly that phrase is, but we’re certain something has to be exclaimed. Designer Lon Ballard has concocted the, um, object you see above, which is actually an automobile modeled after Crocs and built almost entirely from foam. In fact, 90 percent of the Spira’s makeup is …
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Why are so many school buses getting zero miles-per-gallon while idling – as we saw them doing over and over again during our investigation?
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The St. Michael-Albertville High School supermilage team is heading to its first trip at Brainerd International Raceway next month to compete with 50 schools. The team constructed the lightweight car from scratch with the goal of attaining 400 miles per gallon.
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FREDERICK, Colo.– UQM TECHNOLOGIES, INC. (AMEX:UQM) , a developer of alternative energy technologies, announced today that an all-electric version of the 35-foot Proterra FCBE 35 transit bus powered by a UQM ® PowerPhase ® 150 electric propulsion system achieved over 20 miles per gallon in fuel economy equivalency testing conducted by the Pennsylvania Transportation Institute at Pennsylvania …
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