Eco car does 2,487.5 miles per gallon

Forget about those bigwig auto manufacturers in Japan and Detroit – trust a group of students to come up with an eco car prototype that is able to hit a whopping 2,487.5 miles on a gallon (MPG) of fuel – now that’s economy! A team from Laval University in Quebec, Canada picked up the Grand Prize at this year’s Shell Eco-Marathon yet again, improving on their effort last year which clocked up 2,757.1 MPG. Of course, it will take a long time before such prototypes are viable enough to function like a standard vehicle you see on the road, but we would gladly take 500MPG if it could carry four adults comfortably with room to spare in the boot for some baggage.

Edwin Kee