Gasoline Saver and Fast Electric Prototype Car for the Near and Not So Near Future
Wednesday, March 26th, 2008I saw the Mileage Master on GMA last week. It’s an invention by 69-year old Fred Crane. Of course it didn’t go into any explanation how the gizmo works because the patent is still pending. But if you install a Mileage Master (when they are available), you will be able to flip a switch at 35 mph and cut off fuel to half your cylinders. Crane says he gets 42 mpg on his current car, but the one he had before got a whopping 60-mpg.
Crane is feisty. He won’t sell out to the oil companies. He thinks, “They would just throw it away.” He also says that if you get 20 mpg and spend $100 per month, you could lower that bill to $35.00 with his gizmo. This should be on the market sooner than the prototype electric car. Now if a 69 year old man come up with this tinkering around, we have to wonder don’t we?
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=4464201&page=1
Ian Wright is an entrepreneur that’s out to change the perception of electric cars, that they are slugs or as he called them in a GMA article “golf carts.” Well he’s built a $150,000 prototype that goes 170 mph, and is all electric. It looks like a little racecar. Sharp. But it won’t be a production car for 12 years. But this does go to show that electric cars may be a possibility after all. In everything I read I couldn’t find how they recharge these cars. The first link in the first paragraph also takes you to other prototypes like the T-Zero car.
Read about it and see it: http://www.wrightspeed.com/x1.html.