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Old 01-05-2014, 05:42 PM   #335 (permalink)
XprizeRoadTrip
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Originally Posted by CFECO View Post
Too bad the "winning" cars were not mainstream enough to be widely acceptable, and designed for mass production.
+1 If people want affordable efficiency, they need to accept vehicles with different architecture and design.

Without an energy breakthrough we have two choices for hyper-efficient vehicles:
- looks different, is affordable
- looks the same, is expensive

And since there's always an exception, the VW XL1: looks different, is expensive.

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