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xcel
09-18-2006, 10:52 PM
Funding an Electric-ethanol-gasoline hybrid vehicle that can get 100 mpg. (http://blogs.cars.com/kickingtires/2006/09/google_hybrids.html)

Cars.com - Sept. 14, 2006

http://www.cleanmpg.com/photos/data/501/Google_PHEV.jpg
Google car - funding for next gen PHEV’s.

As if the auto industry weren’t competitive enough: Google’s founders have launched a $1 billion philanthropy campaign to tackle world hunger, disease and global warming. And the web gurus are starting the healing with a hybrid car.

Google.org - that’s the group’s name and the website - wants to be profitable while it saves the planet, and its first goal is to build an electric-ethanol-gasoline hybrid vehicle that can get 100 mpg. The group is already looking into buying a small fleet of cars to put experimental powerplants into, and has consulted with engineers experienced in hybrid technology.

We’ll file this one under “We’ll believe it when we see it,” but still applaud the thought.

AshenGrey
09-19-2006, 06:28 AM
Look on the bright side: at least Google is using its own money for this. Every time GM makes some high-tech concept car, they've bummed a billion or two of OUR tax money from the corporate welfare machine. I think a 100 MPG hybrid is do-able. GM's fuel cell SUV, on the other hand, is welfare-wagon.

tigerhonaker
09-19-2006, 06:54 PM
:Banane37: Well here is my 2-Cents: Go-GOOGLE :D

Terry (tiger)



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