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    One Gallon Challenge: alt-fuel "race" cars get up to 164 MPGe     1251154440

    Dirigo - click for more images of the One Gallon Challenge
    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 ...

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    One Gallon Challenge will drive 7 cars to go 100 miles using, well, one gallon     1250440320

    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 to maximize efficiency from a microcar. But Suibb also recognizes that designers of other vehicles ...

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    2007 Green Grand Prix photos to prepare us for next weekend's race     1209161040

    click to enlargeThe 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 to share. Looks like some of our old friends were a the race last year, along with some vehicles ...

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    New York 2008: Jory Squibb returns with an X-Prize entry     1206366420

    click to enter galleryWe 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, is now back on the ABG radar with his presence at the New York Auto Show. He didn't have a car with ...

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    Alt Car Expo: video of the homemade, 100+mpg Moonbeam     1165694160

    "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 project. But, with his long history of making environmentally safe cars, he radically rethought what a ...

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    Heading to the Santa Monica Alt Cars expo     1165593060

    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 ...

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    Microcar builder wants 105mpg vehicle in AltCarExpo     1160415180

    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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