If the XL1 was equipped with an 18 gallon fuel tank, and you did all highway driving, you could fill it up with an oil change and when the next change was due you could change the oil and keep driving without filling up for and additional 2,400 miles. But it comes with a much smaller fuel tank, because if it could go that long on a single tank chances are the fuel would foul before it got used. The tank is only 2.6 gallons to prevent fuel age related problems from happening. So fill ups are cheap.
Update: Many people have pointed to Snopes debunking this.
The car itself is interesting, but many of the car’s stats and the politics mentioned in the article are misrepresented or flat-out myths. Just look at the comments section to see it get torn apart.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/conspiracy/xl1.asp
The comments call a lot of BS on the ‘facts’ presented.
NIce idea, it’s an extension of their 100km/l testbed from a few years back. If you want an actual decent car to drive in the US go buy a VW TDI model. I’ve owned a TDI Sportwagen since 2010 now and just absolutely love it. 50mpg highway, 35 city and tons of room. Diesel is so much cleaner than it used to be and this one is amazing. I can go right now and run my finger around the tailpipe and not see a speck of soot. Dirt, yes, I don’t wash it out 🙂 but no soot.
People love to believe in conspiricies, don’t they?
Not this again.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/conspiracy/xl1.asp
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This article is, unfortunately, quite rubbish. There are a bunch of typos and the “facts” presented, as many of the commenters mentioned, are invalid.
Nope… Sounded good. It’s basically a “research vehicle”. Will we somehow someday get a 200+Mpg car?
Possibly. But it’s gotta be better than a no-trunk havin’, micro-tire wielding, 12 sec 0-60 accelerating, future car.
http://jalopnik.com/the-mpg-conspiracy-theory-is-crap-and-heres-why-1562574926
I’m glad there’s already a Snopes post on this, as it says pretty much what I wanted to say on reading the article, only more coherently and with less personal insults to the apparently multiply-debunked “journalist”. I’m surprised The Loop linked to this one.
I’m surprised it hasn’t been removed.
There are relevant article on this car, but this isn’t one of them. This is such a conspiracy-theorizing, cranky-old-man article that linking to it is embarrassing.
Stick to Apple / tech news…!
Why surprised? Jim constantly links to BS conspiracy articles. It’s just that, when they’re in favor of Apple, nobody reading this site gives a crap. We all like to believe BS, as long as it is BS that reinforces our preconceived beliefs.