The “HyperRocket” was built by a Ford efficiency expert in his garage, and with two seats, a whopping 53km/L, and a comfortable cruising speed of 105kph, we’re awfully tempted to buy the thing.
Yeah. It’s for sale. The creator, a guy named John, is selling the HyperRocket to make room for his next project, a plug-in, fully electric vehicle. The guy deserves some kind of medal for achievement in DIY. [Jalopnik]
Kai
May 10, 2009 at 4:23 PM
If you’re going to Australianify the US content for Gizmodo, and convert mpg to a metric equivalent, please convert it to a figure that actually means something.
Aside from the fact that mpg is a back-to-front way to measure fuel efficiency, km/l is completely meaningless.
For those that are wondering, 53km/l is 125 mpg which is 1.88 litres/100km
To convert from mpg to l/100km divide 235.2 by the mpg rating.
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Chris
May 10, 2009 at 6:54 PM
How many litres/100 km? This is the official measure of fuel consumption in au.
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May 11, 2009 at 11:03 PM
To Kai, Chris and the rest of the Australian motoring movement, call me old school, but when we changed over to metric, WE GOT IT WRONG.
Fuel consumption tells us what our range is, ie, how far can I go on a tank of gas?
Back in the days of gallons, if your car did 20 mpg and you had a 18 gallon tank, you could do 360 miles, simple.
This new system picks an arbitrary distance (100 km) and tells us how much gas we need to go that far.
But what if I don’t want to go 100 km?
The point is, we have litres in our tanks, not kilometres.
If I want to go 80 km, and my car does 7 kilometres to the litre (equivalent to 20 mpg) then in my head I can guess I need about 11 and a bit litres of gas.
Working the new method, a 20 mpg car is 14.12 litres/100km, if we only want to go 80km, one would assume that we only need 80% of our fuel consumption figure, question is, how accurately can you guess 80% of 14.12 in your head?
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