Super Fuel Efficient Car

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How would you like to cross the country for five dollars? That is exactly what this UBC car can do! It was built to compete in the Super Millage Challenge and won.

“Driving from Halifax to Vancouver in the most fuel efficient car you can buy – the Honda Insight Hybrid – would use about 240 litres of gas. Not bad when you compare it with, say, an SUV. But how about a car that would get you coast to coast on a mere 4.5 litres?

Students at the University of British Columbia recently took home top honours in the Society of Automotive Engineers Supermileage Competition.

The team’s entry boasts a fuel economy of 0.074 litres/100 kilometres, doubling the efficiency of its closest rival built by a team from Laval, Quebec. That works out to about 1,337 km/litre.”

Via: Discovery Channel

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28 Comments


  1. HAHAHA! 1337 car!


  2. That works out to about 1,337 km/litre.”
    thats one leet car… Nerds


  3. Quite nifty indeed.


  4. Whats this kilometers/litre BS, it should read 3144.8 MPG!!!
    This whole metric system stuff is dead.


  5. hey joe, read the article first before posting your two cents. this car was made in CANADA. They use the metric system there. the car sounds great, unfortunately it rains/snows to much for canada to use a car like this. the cars adapted for burning ethanol sounds the best answer yet, for alberta to ontario.


  6. I’m not sure how the driver even fits inside. However it is done, I doubt it is confortable. The website that directed me here was saying how much more fuel efficient it is than a Honda Insight. Well, I used to own an Insight, and I can say for sure that I’d rather go cross country in the Insight than this contraption.



  8. hey mike, read up on ethanol. it burns too cooly and doesnt have the energy potential of gasoline. also the corn uses so many nutrients in growing that an ethanol economy would depelete the farmlands in just a few decades. biodiesel on the other hand has a roughly equivalent energy potential and can be made from soybeans, which are legumes and actually replenish the soil, and from the waste vegetable oil from the millions of fast food restaurants around.


  9. dude , thats nice and all but that kinda lokks cramped, andi bet another car coulden’t even see U if its high


  10. execpt it only seats one, if they could make a car like that that seats 8. then. I would be inmpressed


  11. How much do you effecency do you lose when you stick a 250 pound man in it?


  12. Joe: The metric system is not dead. Metric is gaining popularity and just remember, it is easier to use than imperial.


  13. Hey, metric system is THE system. Imperial exists only because americans were too lazy to learn new things from which they could have profited.


  14. We ALMOST went metric back in the 70’s. We were like days away from the deadline when we changed our mind. Crazy


  15. In Canada the metric system is what’s used, so gas and groceries are all metric volumes and weights. However some things just won’t change such as building materials. We still have 4 X 8 sheets of plywood and 16 inch centers on construction.


  16. This is all meaningless. The contest should require them to develop a true passenger vehicle, not an ultralight with a stirling motor. Try selling this to a family of four.


  17. Also, Kyle, Ethanol can be made from many other sources. Have you heard of Cellulosic ethanol or cellanol? Cellulosic ethanol is chemically identical to ethanol from other sources, such as corn or sugar, and is available in a great diversity of biomass including waste from urban, agricultural, and forestry sources. However, it differs in that it requires an extra processing step called cellulolysis – breaking cellulose down into sugars.
    Waste is everywhere. We do not need to worry about growing corn or sugar cane strictly for ethanol production any longer. As long as there are humans, we will create enough waste cellulose to maintain a supply of fuel.


  18. I wonder how fast this thing goes? It wouldn’t be much fun if it didn’t fly like a rocket!


  20. Hi JP (18),

    No it doesn’t fly like a rocket. 🙂 That would be fun though (until you crash). I saw it on TV when they did an interview and the car was going at a jogging pace.


  21. But where do the groceries go??


  23. so why is everyone so negative on this experiment, the design was to win this contest not create a super passenger car to take you from suburb to suburb.


  24. Every time we humans endeavor to push the extreme (space) the “norm” gets dragged along behind. This contest and others like it (x-prize) are designed to provide motivation for the push.

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