Super-High Mileage Cars

Here’s the next big competition coming down the road: a $25 million dollar prize to the builder of the first commercially-viable 100 mile per gallon car.

The crew that mounted the $10 million dollar X Prize for the first reusable private spacecraft is now looking to America’s highways, at global warming, and at American cars that in 2007 average fuel consumption of 25 miles a gallon — no better than the ancient, clattering, old Model T.