4896 kilometers on a single liter of gasoline Bashny.Net

The winner of the next ecological marathon, sponsored by Shell, was 4896 kilometers on one liter of gasoline. Of course, not an ordinary car: a prototype of a record - the development of French students.

Since 1985, Shell holds an event in Europe, it would seem unnatural for the oil giant - ecological marathon. Introduced in 1939 in the US as a competition between internal corporate employees of a research laboratory, today turned into a marathon annual festival, the main actors who - young engineers and students from two dozen European countries.

In this, the twenty-sixth marathon was attended by about two hundred teams, each of which put your car fit for maximum fuel economy. The task - to pass as much as possible the distance on one liter of fuel. Since 2005, nobody has been able to surpass the results shown car from Zurich - 3836 kilometers. But this time you are: car called Polyjoule, created by French students from the Polytechnic University of Nantes, on the first day of competition was 4414 kilometers on one liter, and then improved his achievement to 4896 km.

Technical Regulations for the participants of ecological marathon Shell is quite laconic. Machines prototypes should be no more than a meter wheelbase, on the other hand - not less than one meter, the track - at least 50 centimeters, length and width must be entered in box 3, 5x1, 3 m.Etot unit consumes about 500 times less fuel than the average passenger car. However, the fuel itself in this case - not gasoline and liquefied hydrogen. Technical details of the French kept secret, but we know that the power plant Polyjoule works on the principle of so-called fuel cells, where the catalytic reaction of a compound of hydrogen and oxygen produces electricity.





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