Another bit of coverage, this time in the
NYT Wheels blog.
Regarding the MPG challenge portion:
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“They will have to keep up, and stay on time,” Mr. Ewing noted. “None of this dawdling along at 20 miles an hour, to get high mileage numbers. This is a time-speed-distance rally. We will be tracking entrants with GPS. So they’ve got to keep within a certain time window, while trying to achieve the best fuel economy they can.”
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The piece also mentions the "Innovation Class" vehicles:
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“We will have cars running on up to five different fuels,” said Mike Ewing, a spokesman for the race organizers. “Biodiesel, ethanol, methane, propane and, of course, gasoline. We can’t have anything too exotic, such as hydrogen, which we are not allowed to use in China. We will also have hybrid-electric and plug-in hybrids.”
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More:
http://wheels.blogs.nytimes.com/2008...eat+race&scp=1