Comments on: 300 MPG Or Conspiracy Theory?

By: Ryan Scott

Ryan Scott — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 22:50:09 +0000

Ha ha! Got my Tesla a few months ago. I love it.

By: Humble

Humble — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 08:30:14 +0000

Lets help eachother here, gas has nothing to do with Monica and Bill, that story got out, because it was suppose to get out. Lets find out what works to get us all better MPG.

By: Uncle B

Uncle B — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 13:11:15 +0000

VW has a diesel Electric plug-in in the offing, but nobody wants it either! Americans are waiting for better times, when the “Status Quo” can continue! They will hold out for the worm to turn. They will buy Corvettes, Cameros, Escalades and vow to drive them less, and live in McMansions none the less! We are doomed for “Third World-ship” for the greater part of our population while the selfish upper-crust obey the dictates of the wild eyed advertising propagandist and purchase his wish-list to immense personal wealth! Even civil building codes propagate the status quo! We are so “Entrenched” by personal beliefs, laws, codes, and such as to be inflexible at times like this! Even Ford continues to sell large engined cars and pick-up trucks! when the price of fuel for them is toppling our economy! The folly is about to stop however, and the Apetura and other very good ideas for the times will surface and take over! The decree has come from communist China, who, upon hearing Timmy Geithner in his Yiddish colloquialism laced espousal of a “masters degree” level on how world economics must be to suit Americans, in broken American English, to a group of multi-lingual, multi-discipline PhD s in Beijing, was laughed at! Out Loud! and consequently, Obama’s overtures for Trillions of dollars in loans to finance the “American Dreamers”were flatly refused! Had Geithner spoke in Mandarin, or even the cruder Cantonese, or at least proper English, thing may have been different, but he came off, in the Chinese quarter, as a shyster, bankster, schlock-Meister, a Shylock carpet-bagger, dictating nonsense to entertain, a misinformed, totally propagandized schlock and fool, who didn’t know his ass from page five! This ended all hope for any but the Apetura and the oil prices we will be paying in the near future will confirm, in spades, this fact. China fought an economic war, with the rest of Asia, and won it! We will realize this when GM(China) is selling American knock-offs to Americans, made in China to be sure! Home grown ingenuity like the Apetura will save us from this “Yellow Peril” and our own capitalists selling us out for the slave-labor markets in Asia! With any luck, the all electric, plug-in Apetura, powered from solar cells in our South lands will break the hold of these thugs on our freedoms, and give us the power to live free again!

By: James Bryer

James Bryer — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 09:31:03 +0000

Diane says:
May 14, 2009 at 9:45 amI don’t really see how this is a big deal. High schools all over the world do super millage challenges that easily get 250 miles to the gallon, and those are high schools. Then, they race them at oh… 70-90 miles per hour. So yeah, this is no big deal and people have known for a long time that this was possible.

Yes, which were all designed for such…What I do is redesign it to work more efficient with what is there. So where they may get these results with what they have then imagine what can be achieved with this modification and multi-cell to which I have mentioned here. In Which someone has taken it on themselves to remove from these comments. May The Lord Forgive whom may be responsible for removal of His Truth and not remove them from His Book Of Life…So All May know His Truth…

By: Diane

Diane — Thu, 14 May 2009 15:45:58 +0000

I don’t really see how this is a big deal. High schools all over the world do super millage challenges that easily get 250 miles to the gallon, and those are high schools. Then, they race them at oh… 70-90 miles per hour. So yeah, this is no big deal and people have known for a long time that this was possible.

By: Taylor Love

Taylor Love — Wed, 13 May 2009 00:17:12 +0000

oh yeah thats right. I heard about this car a while back. about 2 years a go I think. the reason it gets such good gas mileage is because it is so aerodynamic. they designed the car after a water drop, and water drops naturally form to the most aerodynamic shape they can.

By: Johnny

Johnny — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 11:22:45 +0000

A major reason this car has seen troubles is the fact that it has only 3 efficient wheels, instead of adding an inefficient fourth. the government refused a grant because of that and it is rated as a motorcycle.

By: Uncle B

Uncle B — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 00:42:20 +0000

Proof of spectacular mileage, SEE:
http://www.inhabitat.com/2007/12/04/transportation-tuesday-neil-youngs-classic-hybrid/
100 MPG for a 1960 Lincoln !!!

By: Uncle B

Uncle B — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 00:16:06 +0000

The three wheeled, plastic bodied , two seater , large drive wheel out back style, super commuters from Europe don’t get 300 mpg, but they certainly do better than the Prius. We need a “Mortgage Buster” commuter, complete with plug-in capability and a strong dealership – the arrogant, entitlement convinced Yankee Doodle has just about hit the wall with rising gas prices (OPEC demands $75.00 bbl sooner than later) and astounding foreclosure rates, and will “stoop” to accepting a “Sporty” bullet- fast plastic three-wheeler to get to work before starving his family to pay for a living-room on wheels landcruiser for his morning jaunt into the wild woods. Here’s hoping the Apetura will catch on like wild-fire, while we still have ice-caps and polar bears, and some small nations still don’t need life jackets to go to the shvt-house safely!

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 18:11:58 +0000

Guess what goes around comes around. I used to work at a refinery/chemical plant for an unnamed (but well-known) multinational petro company. There were constant rumors about this company buying up energy-efficient technology and ’shelving’ it.

Normally, I’m not part of the tin-hat brigade. But a friend of mine with a MS in Mechanical Engineering worked in the “experimental” area of the facility, and told me of a room where they kept “prototypes”, eventually confirming that this was the graveyard where high-efficiency technology was buried to keep it off the market.

Keep in mind: this was in the 1990’s! The two items I remember were an engine prototyped by a division of GM that got over 50 MPG in a chassis the size of a Cutlass or Caprice. The other one I remember was a new formulation for rubber for tires that extended their useful life by 300% (I heard the Air Force tested out some tires with this new formula on their bombers, and when they were still going strong after other “normal” tires had to be replaced three times, they were yanked off the plane and buried in the graveyard).

Needless to say, this company didn’t want to cut American oil consumption by 80%, nor did they want tires that lasted three times as long cutting into their rubber business. At least, not at that time. And these are only the two items I can remember. I’m sure there were others….

I don’t doubt my friend: he’s the serious type, married with kids, successful, and very devout (lying would be an affront to his nature). But it disturbed him to see this type of hoarding going on to the detriment of the country. And in at least one case, he also talked about someone who WOULDN’T sell out, and was then served with a multi-million dollar patent infringement lawsuit (and an injunction). That poor soul finally took the hush-money and went away.

My belief is that this petro company saw the writing on the wall 20+ years ago, and started hoarding high-efficiency tech so THEY could control it when it finally became a necessity (not just a “nice to have”). They control the fuel, and they own the patent or IP rights to just about any “new” technology that could significantly increase fuel efficiency – and they will “release” it on their time schedule, to suit their profit objectives.

That’s likely why you haven’t seen anything in the last 20 years come out. Short of someone developing cold fusion technology in their basement and patenting it before the petro mafia gets wind of it, there isn’t anything that can be brought to market without severe challenges from the petro cartel. And with the three-ring circus that W made of our patent litigation system, they can bury anything “new” that they don’t already own until the other party is bankrupt.

Welcome to Amerika.