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One Gallon Challenge: alt-fuel "race" cars get up to 164 MPGe

This weekend's One Gallon Challenge in Massachusetts resulted in some pretty amazing fuel economy results. The five vehicles that took part in the race challenge (any line of of cars that starts "in stately, fuel-conserving style" can't really be called a race, can it?) made the 100-mile drive into Boston and posted fuel efficiency results as follows: MIT's all-electric Porsche – 164 MPGe (plug-to-wheels) or 75MPGe (well-to-wheels) Moonbeam – 93 MPGe Dirigo – 88 MPGe Ricker Truck – 70 MPGe Wood-burning ... Read more →

One Gallon Challenge will drive 7 cars to go 100 miles using, well, one gallon Sebastian Blanco

Remember the Moonbeam (pictured)? The tiny three-wheeled bubble car can go more than 100 miles on a single gallon of gas, which is exactly what inventor Jory Squibb wanted to create when he set out ...

2007 Green Grand Prix photos to prepare us for next weekend's race Sebastian Blanco

click to enlarge The fourth annual Green Grand Prix takes place next weekend in Watkins Glen in upstate New York. AutoblogGreen received a few photos taken at the 2007 Green Grand Prix that we'd like ...

New York 2008: Jory Squibb returns with an X-Prize entry Sebastian Blanco

click to enter gallery We met Jory Squibb way back in late 2006 over at the Santa Monica Alt Car Expo. How can you miss a guy driving a tiny, 100+mpg bubble car called the Moonbeam? Jory, from Maine, ...

Alt Car Expo: video of the homemade, 100+mpg Moonbeam Sebastian Blanco

"A gallon of gas is a miracle," says Jory Squibb. Unlike most of the other participants at the Alt Car Expo in Santa Monica this weekend, Squibb embraced standard petroleum fuel for his latest ...

Heading to the Santa Monica Alt Cars expo 3 years ago on Autoblog Green

While I certainly will be working out in Santa Monica this weekend at the Alt Car Expo, I must admit that I'm also going to enjoy a getting out of the Midwest cold for a few days. I known Santa Monica is no Honolulu, but it'll do. For now, this post is a bit sparse, but as we report from the Expo ...

Microcar builder wants 105mpg vehicle in AltCarExpo 3 years ago on Autoblog Green

The builder of the Moonbeam microcar would like to attend the upcoming Santa Monica AltCarExpo but he is concerned about driving a string of ten 300-mile days at about 40 or 50 mph. Jory Squibb already made a big hit at the Boston Altwheels Festival with his home-built 3-wheeler. The car is based ...


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