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Equivalent of 100 miles a gallon? >> what we did was created a new metric for measuring how a car goes. and we call it mpge. miles per gallon equivalent. sometimes the power of the car doesn't have a gallon of anything. it is electric. this new metric we did with consumers report allows to us compare electric against hybrid against gasoline or ethanol or whatever it might be. that's the first you know this to do. and then we're rethinking the arrow die animal igs, we're rethinking the power systems and power train, the materials that are in it. and really just the entire approach of how cars a...

Technology to clean up oil spills on the ocean's surface. right now, i'm geeking out onçn x-prize challenge that three years after it started, is in its final stages. it's a contest to develop hyperefficient cars. the winning cars have to get the equivalent of 100 miles a gallon, be able to travel 200 miles on a single tank or electric charge, they have to be safe to drive and commercially produceable. 131 cars entered the contest back in 2007. now, after some rigorous road testing last week at the michigan international speedway, we are down to nine. here to tell us more about what may be t...