High school senior finds way to get nearly 200 mpg in vehicle

[skepticscott]

81. Well, tell the whole story

This boy did not "make" the car for $3000. He took a car already made, with all of the research. development and infrastructure costs already absorbed, all of the required safety features for a legal street vehicle already in place, and swapped out the propulsion system for another that had also already been designed, funded and built by someone else.

And no, he is not driving this vehicle in any useful way, at practical speeds and for practical distances, for 25 cents worth of electricity for a full charge. Sorry, but he just isn't. Conservation of energy has not been repealed.