{"id":669912,"date":"2010-02-19T15:32:21","date_gmt":"2010-02-19T20:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ridelust.com\/?p=38023"},"modified":"2026-10-04T10:47:23","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T14:47:23","slug":"cal-poly-makes-everything-look-like-a-gas-guzzler-with-2752-3-mpg-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/669912","title":{"rendered":"Cal Poly Makes Everything Look Like a Gas Guzzler with 2,752.3 mpg Car"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-38024\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ridelust.com\/cal-poly-makes-everything-look-like-a-gas-guzzler-with-2752-3-mpg-car\/black-widow\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-38024\" title=\"black-widow\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ridelust.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/black-widow-500x319.jpg?resize=500%2C319\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"319\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Compared to this, even <em>you<\/em> look like a gas guzzler. Students at Cal Poly have built a super-streamlined ride that clocks a record 2,752.3 miles per gallon. They call it the Black Widow. The all-carbon-fiber three wheeler weighs a scant 95 pounds and is powered by a seriously tweaked 3-horsepower, four-stroke Honda 50cc single. Its coefficient of drag is an astounding .12. It uses 20-inch bicycle wheels, two in the front and one in the rear. Yeah, it tops out at only 30 miles per hour, but still, it&#8217;s an incredible feat.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a title=\"Inhabitat - Cal Poly Black Widow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.inhabitat.com\/2010\/02\/19\/students-build-black-widow-supercar-that-gets-2752-3-mpg\/\" >Inhabitat<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/HQw1PP5PSZg8Zbc3Aml0MKT3otw\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/HQw1PP5PSZg8Zbc3Aml0MKT3otw\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/HQw1PP5PSZg8Zbc3Aml0MKT3otw\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/HQw1PP5PSZg8Zbc3Aml0MKT3otw\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Compared to this, even you look like a gas guzzler. Students at Cal Poly have built a super-streamlined ride that clocks a record 2,752.3 miles per gallon. They call it the Black Widow. The all-carbon-fiber three wheeler weighs a scant 95 pounds and is powered by a seriously tweaked 3-horsepower, four-stroke Honda 50cc single. Its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2436,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-669912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Oh2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2436"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=669912"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":771410,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669912\/revisions\/771410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}