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Wauseon plant to open Monday for 110-mpg car engines

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I bet the big three wishes they had done this.

Wauseon plant to open Monday for 110-mpg car engines


By LARRY P. VELLEQUETTE
BLADE BUSINESS WRITER

WAUSEON - The man who drove his 20-year-old Mustang from Napoleon, Ohio, to Las Vegas and back last year on 39 gallons of fuel will open his first manufacturing facility Monday to allow others to get 110 miles per gallon.

Doug Pelmear, owner of Horse Power Sales.net Inc. and Hp2G LLC, will hold an open house Monday morning in the idle 100,000-square-foot factory he has leased in Wauseon to begin manufacturing his revolutionary engine.

Toledo Blade
 
How much you want to bet this is a miserable failure?

Efficiency is not near 8 percent for current IC engines. More like 32-34%. Hey, look at that....what he claims his car gets. Diesels approach 40%. Those are in production today. So in order to get his claimed 4 times efficiency he needs to create energy. This guy is so full of crap he could fertilize Ohio. I can't believe some idiot bought this.
 
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A Decatur, Ind., specialty car company, Revenge Designs Inc., has contracted with Mr. Pelmear to purchase 2,000 engines for use in a new vehicle it plans to unveil at the end of this year at the Los Angeles International Auto Show. The vehicle is to be called the Revenge Verde Super Car, which will use Mr. Pelmear's 400-horsepower engine and its 500 foot-pounds of torque to travel up to 200 mph and get 110 mpg - though admittedly not at the same time.
 
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Best Buckeye;1479099; said:
A Decatur, Ind., specialty car company, Revenge Designs Inc., has contracted with Mr. Pelmear to purchase 2,000 engines for use in a new vehicle it plans to unveil at the end of this year at the Los Angeles International Auto Show. The vehicle is to be called the Revenge Verde Super Car, which will use Mr. Pelmear's 400-horsepower engine and its 500 foot-pounds of torque to travel up to 200 mph and get 110 mpg - though admittedly not at the same time.
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Those are the idiots I am referring to. Of course if people here really think a fired Ford worker had the secret to brake thermodynamic laws, you are in that group too.

BTW...it is possible to make a 100mpg car right now out so a IC engine. Yet nothing that makes sense from a cost perspective.

Oh, let me add....if you really think car companies are keeping fuel economy away from the consumer on purpose, time for a lobotomy. It's all about cost, and eventually there are diminishing returns on cost for fuel economy. People won't buy it. They are not in cahoots with the oil industry. The auto industry could care less about oil. They make cars. If they could make one that ran on water and made financial sense they would.
 
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Best Buckeye;1479109; said:
I don't know if it works or not , but what if it does?....
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Sweet, what if the tooth fairy really existed. Let's discuss that. Just about as probable.

Anyway, to just for fun...

Well, there is the can do it and the cost of it. They could make a 100mpg car. Actually, anyone could. Yet it's all about how much money you save. Lets say the average person drives 12,000 miles a year. Lets go with 20,000 for fun. Then let's assume $5 a gallon gas. 10 year car lifespan. Average fuel economy of 20MPG for an alternative car. That is $3000 a year on gas, and a total of $30,000 over the lifetime of the car. If they can hit 100mpg that would be a $24,000 savings. I will not even get into opportunity cost, etc. So they need to make an equivalent car, meeting all federal standards, for less than $50,000. If they do, and it actually tests out at 100mpg for that cost I would be shocked. Mind you, this is a guy who does it pretty much by himself based on something his grandfather thought about almost 70 years ago (he also claims current cars are 8% efficient which I can personally guarantee is wrong). Add to the fact there have been millions of really smart people that have done IC research over the last 100+ years. It is still an IC engine. It still obeys the laws of thermodynamics. He claims tolerancing does it....bull[censored]. I have been involved in and read about IC engine research. They have used world class tolerancing in labs to make IC engines as efficient as possible (along with exotic metals to reduce friction). Still they have trouble getting any better than your average diesel at about 40%. Yet this guy can hold tighter tolerances...bull[censored].

For the record, I have a Masters Degree in Engineering and worked in the auto industry for 10 years (including IC engine work). It is possible to make a 100mpg car. Yet making one that makes sense financially and meets all government regulations is another matter.

If it does work, great for all. Yet everything I have learned about automobiles, thermodynamics, IC engines, etc. tells me this guy is full of [censored]. Believe what you want.
 
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scott91575;1479123; said:
Sweet, what if the tooth fairy really existed. Let's discuss that. Just about as probable.

Anyway, to just for fun...

Well, there is the can do it and the cost of it. They could make a 100mpg car. Actually, anyone could. Yet it's all about how much money you save. Lets say the average person drives 12,000 miles a year. Lets go with 20,000 for fun. Then let's assume $5 a gallon gas. 10 year car lifespan. Average fuel economy of 20MPG for an alternative car. That is $3000 a year on gas, and a total of $30,000 over the lifetime of the car. If they can hit 100mpg that would be a $24,000 savings. I will not even get into opportunity cost, etc. So they need to make an equivalent car, meeting all federal standards, for less than $50,000. If they do, and it actually tests out at 100mpg for that cost I would be shocked. Mind you, this is a guy who does it pretty much by himself based on something his grandfather thought about almost 70 years ago (he also claims current cars are 8% efficient which I can personally guarantee is wrong). Add to the fact there have been millions of really smart people that have done IC research over the last 100+ years. It is still an IC engine. It still obeys the laws of thermodynamics. He claims tolerancing does it....bull[censored]. I have been involved in and read about IC engine research. They have used world class tolerancing in labs to make IC engines as efficient as possible (along with exotic metals to reduce friction). Still they have trouble getting any better than your average diesel at about 40%. Yet this guy can hold tighter tolerances...bull[censored].

For the record, I have a Masters Degree in Engineering and worked in the auto industry for 10 years (including IC engine work). It is possible to make a 100mpg car. Yet making one that makes sense financially and meets all government regulations is another matter.

If it does work, great for all. Yet everything I have learned about automobiles, thermodynamics, IC engines, etc. tells me this guy is full of [censored]. Believe what you want.
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I never said anything about believing it now did I ?:shake:
 
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