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When you build a car that can go from San Francisco to Seattle on a single gallon of gas with a few drops to spare, you're going to get some attention, even if you're from a high school in Indiana.

Mater Dei High School in the town of Evansville won AutoZone's "Show It Off" contest for building a fuel burner that gets 849 miles per gallon, Hybrid Cars says. And, no, we didn't drop a decimal point. The single-person car has an aluminum frame and is powered by a 50-cc engine. Mater Dei won the AutoZone prize about five months after taking home the "urban concept gasoline" award in the Shell Eco-marathon Americas 2013. The high school managed to about triple its miles per gallon rating from a year earlier after entering a car that took about 10 months to build. While it is mighty impressive, that 849 mpg figure pales in comparison to Quebec's Université Laval, which entered its car in the Eco-marathon's "gasoline prototype" division and got a stunning 3,587 miles per gallon.Continue reading 849-mpg Mater Dei high school ecocar wins DIY prize from AutoZone

849-mpg Mater Dei high school ecocar wins DIY prize from AutoZone originally appeared on AutoblogGreen on Tue, 24 Sep 2013 10:03:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.



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