Filed under: Emerging Technologies, Hybrid

Ingo Valentin was interviewed on local news station WISN recently about his 130 MPG Ingo Car. The car uses in-wheel motors that run on fluid pressurized from a small on-board gas motor. Ingo hopes the car will win the X-Prize so he will get the funding needed to get the car into production. The car has interesting features like regenerative breaking, but I am not too certain about the bumpers that store energy whether there is an accident. The use of pressurized fluids seems to be an emerging and clean automotive technology (see urls below) and may

beat out electric and ethanol cars to take the X-Prize.

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[Source: YouTube via Gas 2.0]

 

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