If you're willing to sacrifice all comfort, a new car created by students at Brigham Young University can travel from Salt Lake City to New York on just one gallon of gas.
The team of students just won a national miles-per-gallon competition with their car, which can go about 2,000 miles per gallon of gas.
During their first session, the car blew a tire and it took hours to fix. That afternoon, things turned around and they were able to complete their competition with just ten seconds to spare."When we finally found out it was like a second wave like not only do we get a number on the scoreboard, but it happened to be first place," explained David Leavitt Michael, an engineering student on the team.
"There's a tremendous sacrifice, Michael added."And with all things, you see this, I mean, this is a specialized vehicle just to get the maximum fuel efficiency, it cuts corners of comfort. I mean, the person has to be the right size to fit in it, and no cooling or AC or any other creature comforts, things are unfinished."
"People shouldn't look at this and say, 'Oh, they've got some magic technology here that you know, that they could patent or something,'" said Dale Tree, Ph.D BYU Engineering Professor."We're using the same principles that all the engineers use, that are working in the industry, but we are able to take them to like an extreme."
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