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100mpg city car targeted for 2011


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Axon is a British project in its early stages of development, whose creators claim they’ll produce a 100mpg (70g/km CO2) urban vehicle by 2011. Rather than utilizing batteries or alternative fuels, the Axon plans to use aerodynamic design, lightweight materials and a humble a 500cc, twin-cylinder engine to achieve it's 100mpg fuel-economy target.
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33 responses // 100mpg city car targeted for 2011

  • I would love one of those things! It would be nice if it was 100 miles per 1 hour charge of sunlight.
    LukesAlive
  • Backwards thinking.

    We're trying to get off gas, not delay the inevitable collapse.
    Saladin
  • Won't happen. An oil company will buy it out, and make sure the technology goes no where. If it weren't for them, we'd all be driving eclectic cars today and have thousands more in our pockets each year.
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    75thDeadMan
  • watch this comment being used here, here, here, here, here and here
    2011??? But we need it now!
    current_nando
  • 2011? It's sooner than what the Congress is promising: cutting emissions by 2050 (on another article here on current). Rather than relying, we should all take the initiative and help through our own little ways.
    pogschampion
  • watch this comment being used here and here
    It reminds me of those "Matchbox" cars I used to collect as a kid.
    stripes
  • http://youtube.com/watch?v=f4w6aJMNXSk
    I prefer the air car
    stardate
  • whoa. i want an air car.
    stephenthomson
  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tf4gOS8aoFk
    I won't be impressed until we start talking MPC (Miles Per Charge) or MPGSW (Miles Per Gallon of Salt Water). Air is cool too.
    Hawkmang
  • I see alot of low impact cars, but not many sports cars. Imagine a hybrid Formula 1 or NASCAR... that would be dope.
    JDM_Jelani
  • Why are these cars getting smaller and more buggy looking? Next thing you know, we'll be driving in air bubbles.
    Neghie
  • I'll only drive a car that runs on love.
    renbyrd
  • Lol, renbyrd. Sounds like a car that would run on X.
    Neghie
  • http://www.detnews.com/2005/autosinsider/0504/12/A01-14...
    The 1908 Ford Model T boasted a fuel economy of 25 miles per gallon. Yet almost 100 years later, the EPA average mileage for all cars is under 21 mpg.
    dearmat23
  • http://driving.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/dri...
    100 MPG Car Heralded by London Times in 2002 - Where is it now?
    dearmat23
  • http://current.com/items/76389182_sexy_green_car_show
    Check out this Current Ride POD about the Sexy Green Car Show featuring Drew Broadrick.
    HollybyGolly
  • made in Britain!
    mattbrawn
  • This MAY happen you certain few hopeless disbelivers, it'd be great, and if you think it's not so fast, this's showing it'll get there, a giant leap for green cars...NOT ran on poo, I run my Epace on my poo, runs just as good as petrol, don't know why we don't do that...guess somepeople are just more sissy than me then...well, you do have to sqish it first...heck! I'M not embaressed about it!
    steadward
  • When are we going to get some solar-powered cars, or cars powered by ideas?
    joshuaheller
  • The trick is to get these types of earth-friendly, cost-friendly cars to look a little more sexy, too. Then we're really talkin'
    pstuart
  • I think solar panels on cars look really sexy. People used to love fake wood paneling on their cars. It's all about people's perceptions.
    St_Alia_10191
  • I'm looking forward to a true hybrid that combines all of these alternative car models- air pressure, hydrogen, solar panels, electricity- into one system.
    BigME413
  • http://current.com/items/88955064_don_t_be_a_gashole
    I urge everyone to see the new documentary film "Gashole." It's about the history of Oil prices and the future of alternative fuels. In the movie they profile a guy living in Texas who IN THE 1970s, made a car engine that traveled just under 200 miles on 2 gallons of gasoline. Later on he was found dead from a drug overdose in his car on the side the road in the middle of nowhere. The car with a 100 mpg was taken away by an oil company and they said that the car did not have a 100 mpg even though there were witnesses who rode in the car when it went 200 miles on 2 gallons of gasoline.

    Also in the movie is a story about how researchers at Shell Oil Company were able to make a car that went 149.5 MILES ON 1 GALLON OF GASOLINE.

    It seems as tough we are moving backwards.

    The movie in on tour right now going from city to city. It will hopefully be out nation wide in the late summer and out on DVD in November or December.
    Future_America
  • For a green technology to succeed it has to be as good or better than the product it's trying to replace in all aspects. If you want something that doesn't have a top speed of 30 mph, check out the Tesla electric roadster. It's gorgeous and goes 130, thanks to it's electric motor it has a blistering acceleration of 0-60 in 3.9 seconds.
    http://www.teslamotors.com/
    Dmitri_Molotov
  • I'm so fed up with all these supposed products that either under-deliver or don't ever deliver. For a decade car makers have told us this technology is 'just around the corner'. Well, a lot of it is hot air. And I continue to see people buying cars for the latest gadgetry like massaging seats and 37 cupholders. Consumers need to DEMAND, and automakers need to SUPPLY. Do those terms ring any bells?
    benjaminV
  • You know what sucks, I'm 6 feet 7 inches tall i could never fit into this or most other fuel efficient cars.
    crimson_thoughts
  • Oh Crimson, that would be as much fun to watch as my husband thinks it is to watch me at 5 foot zip trying to crawl into a full-size pick-up.He finally put running boards on for me!
    This car looks cute and sexy. I agreed, though, we need this now - not 'sometime' in the future. Why can't the auto makers get that through their heads?
    JoQ
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  • I thought we are tyring to ESCAPE from using fossil fuel. Our goal should be to be absolutely free from oil. Why not promoting alternative cean energy instead of exisiting disfunctional system??
    dablaq
  • That car looks like the mini cars, i used to have when i was a little kid.
    Dubdice23
  • and by that time oil will cost $9.00 a gallon, so that 100 mpg will not seem so great by then... if and when it comes out... not to be a pessimistic but come on, cant we do better than a 500cc engine and 3 YEARS away... weak solution at best.
    korourke
  • It's interesting how there's one right there but they won't open the model to the public for at the very least another 3 years.. I don't expect it to ever come out. By the time we get our hands on it, we'll all be broke and in poverty from the current gas prices. Kudos to the governments and it's agreement with gas companies. Glad they've come to tease us again.
    nikki185usa
  • I hope this is a proper half decent attempt at building such an economical car for the real world. Please don't lose heart, jump all the hurdles you face putting it into production because I will be among the first to buy one, end of story. I am sick of hearing of all these one off wonder cars that never get built and really do cost the earth.
    Gemac
  • this car is the reason why in 100 years we will still be facing the problem of oil - when are we going to accept the fate of oil and start over - agreed Saladin <backwards thinking
    tealanchor

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