High school students create 1700mpg car

Student engineers in Indiana high schools are preparing for an annual mileage competition where passenger vehicles regularly exceed 1,000 miles per gallon. The Indiana Mathematics, Science, Technology and Education Alliance (IMSTEA) will host the annual Super Mileage Challenge on April 28 at O'Reilly Raceway Park in Indianapolis. Last year, five of the 22 Indiana high school teams competing there exceeded 1,000 MPG, and 16 of them exceeded 200 MPG. Last year's Indiana's Supermileage winner, Mater Dei High School from Evansville, also won the high school division of a competition sponsored by the Society of Automotive Engineers. Mater Dei reached 1,345 MPG in Indiana and then, after a bit of tweaking, went to the Eaton Proving Grounds in Marshall, Michigan and hit 1,693 MPG.