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Challenge vehicle could travel 3,300 miles on gallon of fuel

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If I recall correctly, these extreme mpg machines start and stop the petrol engine a number of times during a run, and there has been some comment about the energy used to restart the engine actually contributing to the vehicle's motion, thus making them behave as a plug-in hybrid.

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4 May 2012

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12:13 pm

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