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0 pointsclouddrover6y ago0 comments

> I'll prioritize the 0.005L per 100km car for sure. That means the car can be driven for all its expected lifetime (500k km) in a single tank of gas, filled up at the time of purchase!

It's a nice idea but it wouldn't work. The gasoline would go bad before you could use it all.

Plug-in hybrids already have this problem. Their fuel management systems try to keep the average age of the fuel in the tank under 1 year. The Chevy Volt has a fuel maintenance mode that runs every 6 weeks:

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/11/automobiles/owners-who-ar...

https://www.autoblog.com/2011/03/18/chevy-volts-sealed-gas-t...

Instead of having a "lifetime tank", a car that uses 0.005L per 100km would be better off with a tiny tank. And then instead of buying fuel at a fuel station you'd buy it in a bottle at the supermarket along with your orange juice.

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LargoLasskhyfv6y ago

There is [1] https://duckduckgo.com/?q=alkylate+petrol which is said to last anything between two years and up to ten years, depending on the mixture while burning rather clean.

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