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Have they already received the patent or just applied it? Also you can patent almost anything, its a whole another case will the patent be genuine if someone wants to sue you to court for violating someones previous patent or they just prove that it is not a new invention. Like you said you have already talked about similar thing here so just that might be enough for the patent not accepted. Usually the patent officers dont search the ecomodder forum for references, but if someone is pissed about someones patent for something he will find usually way to prove that its not new invention.
Again I know most of EU patent laws and not so much about US stuff.
What comes to fuel economy or that challenge I could drive that coast to coast with 3L Lupo speeds over 62 MPH and pass it clearly. So I dont think that fuel consumtion figure or the amount of fuel dont tell how good the machine is. I they are able to do that journey in a stock Ford F-250 then I would think big car companies would get interested... They already know how to make cars which can do 100 MPG @ 62 mph easily they just arent manufacturing those yet.
Improve the product 10% every year in all aspects is their target. That is why they dont want to meet the cafe standards because its too big improvement.
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