Audi, Volkswagen working on 300 mpg cars

Audi and parent company Volkswagen are working on cars that get almost 300 miles per gallon and could come to market in three years. These are real cars — really light cars — using hybrid or possibly plug-in hybrid power plants. The Audi car would use a small gasoline engine, the VW a small diesel engine. The Audi could be based on the Mini Cooper-size Audi A1 or an even smaller chassis. They would not be cheap, but they also wouldn’t be unattainable, $100,000-plus toys for environmentally conscious actors and Wall Street’s money shufflers.

By Bill Howard

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