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Originally Posted by kerry Phillips
Sounds like the National Enquirer to me. I suspect he has Elvis working with him and Amelia Airhart flying him around....
I recently read an article in a reputable magazine claiming cars can and will get up to 300mpg of gasoline. This is 100% true, a car will travel 300 miles on a gallon of gas, but their math/thinking was unique.
This 300mpg was on a plug in hybrid using E85 fuel. The 300 miles consumed several KWH of electricy and gallons of ethanol, but sure enough only a single gallon of gasoline! LOL
How many of these tinkerers make the same oversights. Change of driving techniques, other modifications-like tune-ups, tire air pressure, monitor engine performance and emissions...
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Haha, that's awesome!
However, there are many practical technologies to gaining a few extra miles. I tried like hell to find a link for this and couldn't, but some while ago two independent research groups from two different universities discovered that by passing a small electrical current at a certain frequency through the gasoline between the pump and injectors, that the surface tension of the fuel would increase resulting in higher vapor pressure and better atomization by the injectors.
Albeit this was done in a lab setting and details weren't provided about the engines they were doing this for, they got something like 15% better mileage with the new setup depending on application.