KU mechanical engineering class works to build a 500 miles per gallon car.
The bug, stripped of its engine, transmission and most of its interior, was covered in a fresh coat of primer. The car is the ongoing project of a small group of mechanical engineering students, known as the EcoHawks, working to design a car that can achieve a fuel efficiency of 500 miles per gallon
"A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a
person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as
possible" - Freeman Dyson