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Volkswagen has made a car it says can travel 313 miles on a gallon of diesel, and that emits just 24 grammes of carbon dioxide per kilometre travelled.
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Saw this earlier as my girlfriend was checking the news. I'm not usually one to go mad over car manufacturers claims of hyper efficient cars, but this caught my attention. Although it's obviously not a mainstream idea yet, it seems that Volkswagen have concentrated on reducing weight through the use of comparatively exotic materials like carbon fibre.

I've always thought that it would be nice to see manufacturers take this approach to making cars more efficient - making them much lighter as well as using modern fuel efficient engines. But it seems materials like carbon fibre are still not common enough to make them practical for mass car manufacture of main components. Could this car change all that?
 
Well yes, its' a tipping point, when it makes business sense to use materials like that, then they get used. Well that's how I see the EUs actions towards car manufacturing.
 
The VW L1 i guess? Awesome little thing IMO?

Evidently it is, just XL1 name now. That is much heavier than i expected though! Mine is not even 50kg heavier!
 
I wonder how fast it was travelling to manage such economy figures. Not interested if it can only do that at 30mph.
 
Wow, they have made a car that is the same weight as my 1983 golf and probably with the crash properties of it too and I can carry 5 people...

Congrats VW :D

I'll believe it when people actually drive it.
 
The curvier 2006 L1 concept was actually driven on the road by the CEO of VW to a car show.

L1+volkswagen+2.bmp


Its safer than most bikes would be and id fancy my chances compared to a smart. Its tandem seating so a tiny frontal area hence the high MPG. The fact CO2 is mentioned suggests its an NEDC cycle they have done/simulated.

Last year desigh study was talking about 40bhp and 10kW electric motor.
 
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The government can't afford to not collect large sums of money from us via fuel taxation, so if it doesn't come on the fuel it will come from somewhere else, therefore my head is going to stay firmly in the sand
 
I wonder, if it was made of aluminium, would it weigh any more?

And super low CO2 emissions is good, but not at the expense of relatively high emissions of other kinds. I think Smart is guilty of that, for one.
 
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