Baldos II - Support Swedish Students By Getting 357 MPG In Your Car
Sunday, August 22, 2010 - 04:21
in Physics & Chemistry
Should you happen to be in Washington, D.C. in October and at House of Sweden, the Swedish Embassy, you will get a chance to see a fireball red colored car that delighted Europeans who like tiny red cars earlier this year. It's called the Baldos II and it is a hybrid auto built by engineering students at Luleå University of Technology in Sweden. So what? The fuel tests show it can run 152.2 kilometers on a liter of fuel, whatever that means - in Sweden, they use some primitive system invented during the French Revolution to stick it to the English, so I am not certain but that sounds like 357 MPG. Or approximately 12X my tiny convertible's mileage! read more