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Old 10-20-2010, 10:03 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Illuminati Motor Works 'Seven'

Hello,

The Illuminati Motor Works 'Seven" as you may know is an X-Prize contestant -- they were the only competitor to the Edison2 Very Light Cars in the Mainstream class, and they were eliminated because of a problem with their clutch. Well, they have fixed that, and have been refining the electrics and trying to balance the pack better. And today we get a report from Kevin Smith about a real world range test, and energy consumption numbers:

Illuminati Motor Works: Blog

Spoiler alert: the range at the moment is nearly 200 miles, and the energy used on that drive yielded 217.8MPGe -- both very impressive, indeed. I'm following their progress, and you should, too.

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