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Here are the detailed results of the contest (and yes, the original results are in km/l): http://s08.static-shell.com/content/dam/shell-new/local/corp...

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There are more than ten contestants who beat 1000 km/l. That's a lot of contestants ignored by an article about a research contest.

Without getting into a long argument about how science and collaboration works, narrow sighted articles that cover events like this do a lot of damage.

To be honest with you, even the second place was not even close to this car. In all seriousness though, the top car beat the 2nd place vehicle by 50%. While the other vehicles were impressive (even the last place one achieved 200+ mpg) this one was much more impressive than all the rest (yes it is!) I'm not sure what damage you think this article is going to do.

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