{"id":485537,"date":"2010-03-29T15:45:28","date_gmt":"2010-03-29T19:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/discoblog\/?p=8032"},"modified":"2010-03-29T15:45:28","modified_gmt":"2010-03-29T19:45:28","slug":"shell-eco-marathon-meet-the-1000-mpg-cars-of-the-future-discoblog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/485537","title":{"rendered":"Shell Eco-Marathon: Meet the 1,000-MPG Cars of the Future | Discoblog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>High school and college engineers can do a lot with a lawn trimmer engine, bicycle wheels and a few wires\u2014like build prototype cars that get in the thousands of miles per gallon. Here we bring you the best images from this weekend&#8217;s Shell Eco-marathon Americas competition.<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"50%\" align=\"left\"><\/td>\n<td align=\"right\"><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/discoblog\/2010\/03\/29\/shell-eco-marathon-meet-the-1000-mph-cars-of-the-future\/2\/\"><strong><span style=\"font-family:Georgia, serif;\">NEXT<\/span>&gt;<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>A Powerful Prototype<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/discoblog\/2010\/03\/29\/shell-eco-marathon-meet-the-1000-mph-cars-of-the-future\/2\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8054\" title=\"1-L-Marymount\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/discoblog\/files\/2010\/03\/1-L-Marymount.jpg\" alt=\"1-L-Marymount\" width=\"600\" height=\"392\" align=\"center\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>All weekend long, prototype cars built by students around the country and shipped down to Texas battled it out. They ran 10-lap races around the 0.6 course of city streets in downtown Houston, striving to be top dog in miles per gallon.<\/p>\n<p>The cars in the prototype division, like this one from Loyola-Marymount University, didn&#8217;t have many of the luxuries of the normal cars driving by and wondering what was going on. But those normal cars also don&#8217;t run at more than 1,000 miles per gallon, as many racers achieved.<\/p>\n<p>The winning team in the prototype category, from Universite Laval in Canada, achieved nearly 2,500 MPG. (See a full list of winners <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.shell.com\/home\/content\/ecomarathon\/americas\/media\/2010_sema_houston_results.html\">here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"50%\" align=\"left\"><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/td>\n<td align=\"right\"><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/discoblog\/2010\/03\/29\/shell-eco-marathon-meet-the-1000-mph-cars-of-the-future\/2\/\"><strong><span style=\"font-family:Georgia, serif;\">NEXT<\/span>&gt;<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/FqCy83uh6jqseC8FdN7KoLq70vU\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/FqCy83uh6jqseC8FdN7KoLq70vU\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/FqCy83uh6jqseC8FdN7KoLq70vU\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/FqCy83uh6jqseC8FdN7KoLq70vU\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/DiscoverMag\/~4\/Z9F4A0YtSYM\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>High school and college engineers can do a lot with a lawn trimmer engine, bicycle wheels and a few wires\u2014like build prototype cars that get in the thousands of miles per gallon. Here we bring you the best images from this weekend&#8217;s Shell Eco-marathon Americas competition. NEXT&gt; A Powerful Prototype All weekend long, prototype cars [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":641,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-485537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/641"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}