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Originally Posted by geomartin
sendler, I was the guy in the X-Prize Chevy Metro diesel conversion. Last year we achieved, according to the Green Grand Prix, 106.7 MPG. I was shocked that the scales were off that much. I was also wondering how come the high school team from West Philly scored lower than last year, from 160MPG to a mere 92.5MPG  (self measured) on bio-diesel alone, still that is great for a 2000+lb vehicle with a 1.9L TDI engine, in fact I think its a world record for that particular engine. Here is the spec sheet on the car EVX GT |
So what did you end up self measuring for your car on the track? 86mpgUS? It was really windy. Right in the face all the way down the back straight.
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Was the EVX car the orange FactoryFive car this year? The Orange car ran without the electric this year so maybe the 160 from last year was including an unaccounted for 7KW from the batteries which is about energy equivalent to .2? gallons of diesel.