Google Your Way to 100 Miles Per Gallon

Google’s recent announcement that they would create a for-profit charitable arm did a lot to raise the warm and fuzzy level of this week’s news but one item in particular caught our interest. One of the projects Google.org plans to fund is an effort to develop a 100 MPG car with the goal of dramatically reducing US dependence on foreign oil and production of greenhouse emissions.

An article in this month’s edition of Popular Science confirms that this is only one of several similar efforts including the latest x-prize. With plug-in hybrid conversion kits already for sale in California, can a practical, affordable 100 mpg car be that far off?