Clean, green 100 mpg muscle cars are available NOW
Tuesday, November 6th, 2007by ken winston caine
See the November 2007 Fast Company piece on Kansan “Johnathan Goodwin [who] can:
• “get 100 mpg out of a Lincoln Continental,
• “cut emissions by 80%, and
• “double the horsepower.
“Does the car business have the guts to follow him?” asks Fast Company in headline type.
His bio-diesel/hydrogen/electric hybrid Hummer gets 60 mpg, has double the horsepower of a stock model, and “does zero to 60 in five seconds.”
Goodwin transforms noxious polluting, gas-hog muscle cars into super-powerful clean green machines using current technology and readily available Detroit parts.
He charges $25,000 per vehicle to manage the metamorphosis. His clientele is mainly celebreties and industry titans — the ultra-rich.
Detroit IS paying attention. But how long ’til this super-low-emission, renewable-energy, power-doubling, fuel-stingy technology is available to the rest of us?
Click this link to read Fast Company’s fascinating article on this fascinating young innovator: (more…)
