[kellynla]

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[Atlas Sneezed]

First, it is claimed to get only 80 mpg.

Second, why do journalists never do anything silly like ask whether the inventor’s claims have been independently verified?

[AmericaUnited]

400HP AND 80 MPG... Ahhh YUP.

[CPOSharky]

Can anyone do the numbers?

It looks like he is getting more energy out of a gallon of gas than there is in a gallon of gas.

A case of 110% or better efficiency?

[AmericaUnited]

What radical technology did Mr. Pelmear introduce? His patents are not fully in place, but he said it mostly is a matter of electronics and precision.

"We redesigned a lot of different things on the [engine] block," the engineer said.

"It's still a rod-and-piston engine; it just has a lot more electronics on it."

Mr. Pelmear said that traditional gas engines operate "at a very low efficiency, like 8 to 10 percent, and our engine is like at 38 percent efficiency."

That is total crap. From WikiPedia Modern gasoline engines have an average efficiency of about 25 to 30% when used to power an automobile.

[Mr Rogers]

This is nothing. Send me $25, and I’ll send you maps that may help you locate an engine that gets 25,000 mpg...suppressed by Dick Cheney and Big Oil!

(Actually, in the 70s I had a neighbor who spent his free time searching farms in the belief that such an engine existed and that it was hidden by Big Oil - proof that the stupid will always be with us).

Maybe I should send the map to Larry P. Vellequette at: lvellequette@theblade.com - I could be a super-engineer as well!

[ex-Texan]

More Reports Here . . . I'm only surprised he's still walking around. 'Nuff said.

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

Napoleon, Ohio’s Doug Pelmear claims that he has created a V8-powered 1987 Ford Mustang that develops 400 horsepower and 500 lb-ft of torque on E85, can accelerate from 0-60 in about three seconds – on its way to a top speed of 180 mph – and still returns an astonishing 110 mpg.

Although a 400 horsepower economy car sounds too good to be true, Toledo’s Rocket Ventures, a subsidiary of the Regional Growth Partnership, has verified Pelmear’s claim, according to OzarksFirst.com.

Pelmear has yet to reveal what’s exactly under the hood of his Mustang – as he’s still waiting on a few patents – but says his work is based off the work of his grandfather who developed fuel-saving techniques during the 1940s.

http://www.leftlanenews.com/best-mechanic-ever-ohio-man-tunes-ford-mustang-to-produce-400-horsepower-and-return-110-mpg.html

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

Air-Powered Car Coming to U.S. in 2009 to 2010 at Sub-$18,000, Could Hit 1000-Mile Range

The CityCAT, already being developed in India (bottom left), will be available for U.S. production in three different four-door styles. But it's the radical dual-energy engine, with a possible 1000-mile range at 96 mph, that could move the Air Car beyond Auto X Prize dreams and into American garages.

Zero Pollution Motors (ZPM) confirmed to PopularMechanics.com on Thursday that it expects to produce the world’s first air-powered car for the United States by late 2009 or early 2010. As the U.S. licensee for Luxembourg-based MDI, which developed the Air Car as a compression-based alternative to the internal combustion engine, ZPM has attained rights to build the first of several modular plants, which are likely to begin manufacturing in the Northeast and grow for regional production around the country, at a clip of up to 10,000 Air Cars per year.

And while ZPM is also licensed to build MDI’s two-seater OneCAT economy model (the one headed for India) and three-seat MiniCAT (like a SmartForTwo without the gas), the New Paltz, N.Y., startup is aiming bigger: Company officials want to make the first air-powered car to hit U.S. roads a $17,800, 75-hp equivalent, six-seat modified version of MDI’s CityCAT (pictured above) that, thanks to an even more radical engine, is said to travel as far as 1000 miles at up to 96 mph with each tiny fill-up.

[dinodino]

Yeah, this is a load of horse****. How exactly is he getting 80 mpg and 400 HP with an ethanol blend, no less?